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fake widescreen
I compared the widescreen with the pan & scan version which of both are on this disc and the "widescreen" is pan and scan with black bars on top and bottom masqaradeing as widescreen giving you even less of the original films panaramic view.

What really truth
I wondered why such a beautiful mind could be much like mine. I learned that some people can actually be best in one language somties only that one. Tom is such a great actor.

Decoys for the US Autism Pandemic
[Rainman]

This was a profound movie about a completely bizarre outcome (a relatively erratic data point) in the phenomenon of what is loosely diagnosed as autism. The savant Raymond is probably in the top five, best performances in film or stage, ever. Dustin Hoffman is outstanding, a talent in class by himself. Actor Tom Cruise is becoming more and more an interesting fixture on the American media scene; i.e. a public personality.

The more elaborate, dictionary definition is `autism spectrum disorder', why such unique description? Because it's such a varyingly spread, or spectrum-like ROY G BIV of impairment it is a medical cause still basically poorly understood.

Somewhere along the way, this movie picked up enough popularity to become cultural literacy, and in turn distorted what the public really takes for understanding the disorder of autism. Take the book: "The thing about the dog and ...etc..." by Marc Hadden (upside down black poodle on pink jacket, can't miss it); that author actually tries to capture some of the myth momentum generated by the film Rainman and other spotlight stories in the media showcasing the so called `idiot savant'--not a very humane, and I think out of use label. True freak of natural capacity somewhere in them. Yet not all developed memory stems from people who are otherwise, more or less mentally retarded, requiring supervised care. Patrick Stewart, the actor, can read and act all parts of the Dickens play `A Christmas Carol', on stage, in person, from memory.

You don't have to be `dumb', to be smart...let's remember...in case anti-intellectualism tries too hard to popularize that misconception. There is no reason to surrender your unenumerated rights of conscience to a second class citizen status just because you will do your own thinking about things. We have no idea what grave danger a society is in when the wheeze box of the media propaganda starts to manufacture such conformity for the people's raw intelligence. This is what George Orwell wrote about in his novel "1984". Oh yeeeeee'ees!--has come home to roost. Otherwise anybody who thinks they know something is automatically dismissed, why? Because they're obviously speaking without a license to do so and must therefore be some babbling mental incompetent. Don't let the Snot's Sector for Immoral Abuses pull that con on you.

Most autistics are not so unusual. They form part of the population of challenged and exception people who struggle with enormous disadvantages each and every day--and not pulling off feats of extraordinary computation or selective recall; by in large, incoherent and unable to interact in the mainstream. Fortunately there is still enough humanity in this society to provide substantial care giver support and a happier life for them, housing and activities, nursing and so on.

The mentally retarded, portrayed in this false light of super-human intellectual skills, is a double disservice deception: it tries to disguise epidemic casualty in epidemiology as some heroic fantasy (in order to go on manufacturing those victims with obvious mass population fluoropoisoning), while it recycles the aftermath to chide the idea the public has any recourse to reasoning.

That is unfortunately how ugly the situation is where populations are being parasitized by predators lurking amongst them. The predator does not want exposure it is preying and profiting through human destruction and ramified corruptions its dirt imposes on the institutions of law enforcement and government, even mainstream religious organizations, the health organization and disaster response professionals (who weren't `born yesterday' either). Therefore that predator has to invent a conspiracy that no one can ever expose it for what it is. Nobody else, (by definition), from that point forward, can have the intellectual capacity to fathom the mastery of its world-beater agenda. They are Aldous Huxley's indulgent `Alphas', the favorite children of a malevolent system of socialistic fascism in the living novel "Brave New World"--there's more than one way to suffocate the perfectly manageable gradation of intelligence in the population. But that industrial syndicate will inevitably be caught by its own avalanching evil exploits. Too many epidemics, too many dead babies, too many rube-frauds so idiotic in pretense it makes people ashamed to see adult collaborators put on an act for it, like it's perfectly ok; too much lingering advancement of knowledge leaking into public education. `Who authorized they teach the autonomic nervous system in those worthless American public secondary schools, or any anatomy!?', the most grotesque opportunists are always in for their ultimate upending, especially when their operation requires closing down public education in order to insure the public doesn't think. In the lah'lah land of Happy Valley Mormon Utah, that fantasy has obviously been too temptingly believable, that is why Utah is one of the escape patterns for that titanic political corruption's movement in America, a holed-up, out in nowhere hideaway, a sovereign haven where enormity might still be able to escape the light of day.

Science, as it must be contorted to the whims of ultimate corruption, is centered on the authority to pontificate `intelligent design' to school kids, or for what the uneducated, at least unaware public will mistake for the only debate or branch of science. The language rights of the biologists must be impounded and seized on the pretext `evolutionary theory' offends, moreover to just shut down critical thought in general and along with them the climatologists who dare speak the words: `global warming'. A disagreeable, irrational population is not permitted. That is the only thing abject ignoramus `leadership' comprehends. With that nuisance distraction whipped up to a frenzy, by the usual suspects in the past year or so, hopefully nobody will care or bother with what words like: oncology, histology, cytology, nephrology, neurology, pathology, epidemiology, ... et al, could ever mean or be useful for. Quite a neat little arrangement, the media is. Ask 60 MINUTES what an autism epidemic is. Tell them it is not a million 6 year old concert pianists.

Another disappointment, the film's idea any mental ability (the unnatural kind) ought be best exercised at the Las Vegas gambling table, in the dim witted, short sighted Hollywood estimation of intrinsic value.

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