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Dereliction of Duty

H.R. McMaster

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"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York...

Multimedia Data Mining and Analytics: Disruptive Innovation

Aaron K. Baughman, Jiang Gao, Jia-Yu Pan and Valery A. Petrushin

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This book provides fresh insights into the cutting edge of multimedia data mining, reflecting how...

Before You Wake: Life Lessons from a Father to His Children

Erick Erickson

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From Erick Erickson, "arguably the most powerful conservative in America today" (The Atlantic), an...

Jeff Bridges recommended Tideland (2006) in Movies (curated)

Tideland (2006)

2006 | Drama, Sci-Fi

7.5

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"Another movie that I’ll maybe bring some attention to… not one of, but I think the strangest movie that I’ve ever been involved with, with the strangest character was a Terry Gilliam movie called Tideland. And this one is really great. We had a wonderful time making it. You know, these big-budgeted movies… Fisher King was a pretty big-budget movie and Terry kind of goes after these big-budget things that need a lot of money to pull off what he has in mind. But this one was very low-tech and not a giant budget movie. We shot it in Canada and I play a junkie rock star in it for some of the film, and for a lot of the film, I’m a carcass, you know, a dead body. It’s based on a great book with the same title by Mitch Cullin, and very, very surreal. I’d even stretch it and say it’s the weirdest movie that Terry has ever made, for my tastes (although everyone’s got different tastes). But it’s macabre."

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Andy K (10826 KP) Jan 9, 2022

Fantastic film!

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LaBMaC (116 KP) rated Brain on Fire (2016) in Movies

Aug 3, 2019

Highlights the real life presentation of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis (2 more)

Engaging and emotive plot

Highlights issues surrounding misdiagnosis and psychiatric incarceration

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This movie is unsettling as it is based on a true story, told in the book of the same name by Suzannah Cahalan.
A healthy young woman in her early 20's suddenly and inexplicably withdraws from life. As her personality is destroyed as is much of her life. The illness begins with sensory sensitivity and confusion and ends in catatonia.
When watching it I found myself trying to figure out what exactly what could make someone act like this. Epilepsy, stress, schizophrenia, mental breakdown. The diagnosis was none of these and it reminds the viewer that the brain is a complex and vulnerable entity that could fail in numerous ways.