Food For Thought – Mk II
In 1984, why did Winston live at Victory Mansions?
Is ‘Sync’ just another layer of programming?
Did the creators of the video game Metal Gear Solid know something?
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Site News and Updates
Site news and updates i.e. Posts which are not articles.
Website Update – November 2019
Just a quick update, mostly concerning the Member Calls and new Members of the site.
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Let’s Discuss Dark City
‘Once in a while, one of us wakes up’:
Why? And how?
The rose-coloured glasses of nostalgia:
a natural part of life?
Romance and memory:
‘She’s not my wife, I don’t know who she is’.
Let’s Discuss The Matrix
Why is Neo’s passport set to expire on
September 11, 2001?
Was Cypher really the bad guy in this film?
What is it with red pills and white rabbits?
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Food for Thought
Ever wonder what kind of people join johnlebon.com?
For those who haven't yet partaken in the Member Calls, emails can be the next best thing.
Here is some correspondence I've received from recent Full Member additions, I think you'll like it.
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Let’s Discuss Total Recall
What you’re experiencing is a free-form delusion based on our memory tapes.
But you’re inventing it yourself as you go along.
For the memory of a lifetime, Rekall, Rekall, Rekall.
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Member Call Topic Schedule
I have put together an official topic schedule for the next few weeks worth of Member Calls.
With quite a few new Full Members on the site, the time is ripe to discuss some relevant films.
And if I go silent, tell them to search for me near the hippie festival in Hanoi…
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Let’s Discuss Twelve Monkeys
You need to focus, focus, focus.
Remember the plan, I did my part.
Not what, when. Yes, when. Now, Jim, now.
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Twelve Monkeys, Sync, Sanity
In this post I want to take a quick look at the film Twelve Monkeys (1995).
I watched it again, for the first time in a long time, earlier this week.
My hope is that you will check Twelve Monkeys out for yourself and we can organise a Member Discord Call some time soon to discuss the film in more depth.
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