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Review: Panic Room
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· Score: 2, Insightful
And yet I would argue that both the protagonists and the antagonists in Panic Room were quite intelligent, and certainly not "dumbed down".
Jodie Foster's character didn't bother to connect the phone line that only works in one room of her house on the very first day she moved in. In retrospect, not the best choice, but hardly dumb.
The thieves were suprised that the Jodie and her kid moved in sooner than they thought, but they were working on a deadline and they knew that they were far better off trying to rob them while the phone line in the panic room was still not connected than they would be coming back later after Jodie had the security features 100% hooked up. And even so, the smartest of the thieves still wanted to walk out when he saw that there were people living in the house, but was talked into staying by the other thieves.
Jodie didn't have a gun? Many Americans own guns, but most do not. So it was pretty realistic to make her character not be a gun owner.
And both sides in this movie had to improvise quickly and intelligently. Using the panic room's ventilation system took some good thinking and jurry-rigging by the thieves. Jodie's response to this was daring and took quick thinking.
And when characters do make "dumb" mistakes, as people in real life do, they are quick to say "Why didn't we think of that?" when they realise it.
If you are, as you claim to be, impressed by movies where both sides have to be intelligent to out-smart each other, and have to continually change their plans as the other side adapts to them, then I highly recommend that you see "Panic Room".
There is already another name for Computer Science - Informatics.
According to the introduction of the Computer Science section of the University of Waterloo Undergrad Calendar, "Computer Science is centred around the study of information. It is concerned with the nature and properties of information, its structure and classification, its storage and retrieval, and the various types of processing to which it can be subjected. It is also concerned with the physical machines that perform these operations, with the elemental units of which these machines are composed, with the organization of these units into efficient information processing systems, and with the exploration of the limits of the abilities of these machines."
Yeah, why does mathNEWS do that? I'll be entering 4A in Computer Science at UW in May, and only recently have I noticed U(W) as opposed to UW. I can't figure it out. Is it some joke I'm not getting...?
At the University of Waterloo, Mathsoc (the undergrad student's society in the Faculty of Mathematics) celebrates "Pi Day" on March 14th by giving free pie out to students starting at 1:59pm. That is, at 3.14 1:59.
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Jodie Foster's character didn't bother to connect the phone line that only works in one room of her house on the very first day she moved in. In retrospect, not the best choice, but hardly dumb.
The thieves were suprised that the Jodie and her kid moved in sooner than they thought, but they were working on a deadline and they knew that they were far better off trying to rob them while the phone line in the panic room was still not connected than they would be coming back later after Jodie had the security features 100% hooked up. And even so, the smartest of the thieves still wanted to walk out when he saw that there were people living in the house, but was talked into staying by the other thieves.
Jodie didn't have a gun? Many Americans own guns, but most do not. So it was pretty realistic to make her character not be a gun owner.
And both sides in this movie had to improvise quickly and intelligently. Using the panic room's ventilation system took some good thinking and jurry-rigging by the thieves. Jodie's response to this was daring and took quick thinking.
And when characters do make "dumb" mistakes, as people in real life do, they are quick to say "Why didn't we think of that?" when they realise it.
If you are, as you claim to be, impressed by movies where both sides have to be intelligent to out-smart each other, and have to continually change their plans as the other side adapts to them, then I highly recommend that you see "Panic Room".
There is already another name for Computer Science - Informatics. According to the introduction of the Computer Science section of the University of Waterloo Undergrad Calendar, "Computer Science is centred around the study of information. It is concerned with the nature and properties of information, its structure and classification, its storage and retrieval, and the various types of processing to which it can be subjected. It is also concerned with the physical machines that perform these operations, with the elemental units of which these machines are composed, with the organization of these units into efficient information processing systems, and with the exploration of the limits of the abilities of these machines."
Yeah, why does mathNEWS do that? I'll be entering 4A in Computer Science at UW in May, and only recently have I noticed U(W) as opposed to UW. I can't figure it out. Is it some joke I'm not getting...?
At the University of Waterloo, Mathsoc (the undergrad student's society in the Faculty of Mathematics) celebrates "Pi Day" on March 14th by giving free pie out to students starting at 1:59pm. That is, at 3.14 1:59.