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To: bentway who wrote (276595)	2/25/2006 1:10:13 PM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 1577931

re: After seeing the latest "King Kong" (also a Peter Jackson movie), I'd say moviemaking special effects are quicly catching up to what I can imagine, or maybe HAVE caught up with it. I often think that's a problem. People are no longer grounded in reality, and subliminally what they see on the screen becomes "possible", maybe even probable to some that are susceptible to suggestion. Then you get a government that promotes the idea that EVERYBODY is in CONSTANT DANGER from "terrorists", and people suspend their skepticism, they believe anything that can happen, no matter how unlikely, will happen. They've seen it before, somewhere. The visuals of 9/11, forever burned into our psyche, do not help. Those were the most devastating "special effects" (no matter how extraordinary and unlikely to repeat), but they were so painful and real. John