Comments on: The Prestige http://adsotrans.com/blog/the-prestige/ machine translation, semantic analysis and life in China Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:55:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: trevelyan http://adsotrans.com/blog/the-prestige/#comment-64 trevelyan Sat, 23 Feb 2008 13:42:59 +0000 http://adsotrans.com/blog/the-prestige/#comment-64 Good point. Good point.

]]> By: Patrick http://adsotrans.com/blog/the-prestige/#comment-59 Patrick Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:50:53 +0000 http://adsotrans.com/blog/the-prestige/#comment-59 While I agree that obsession usually implies a sin of commission and violence hidden from our sight implies a sin of omission on our part, the Prestige points out that obsession covers both types of sins: those committed by the actors and those of the audience that waits with bated breath for the accident (Michael Caine's diatribe). I do like the unthinking ("ooh magic!") complicity argument, though. "It says hand-stitched in Pakistan, and you're buying it retail for $15 in the US; just how much did you think the person that stitched it made?" ;) While I agree that obsession usually implies a sin of commission and violence hidden from our sight implies a sin of omission on our part, the Prestige points out that obsession covers both types of sins: those committed by the actors and those of the audience that waits with bated breath for the accident (Michael Caine’s diatribe).

I do like the unthinking (”ooh magic!”) complicity argument, though. “It says hand-stitched in Pakistan, and you’re buying it retail for $15 in the US; just how much did you think the person that stitched it made?” ;)

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