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AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Adeel Hail Unshakable, witty and deeply felt, the film will be paying emotional dividends for a long, long time.

newimaginarything You either hate anything remotely biblical, or you have the mind of a genitalia, and your highest level of consciousness is mere hormones.To think that fornicating with someone else is supposed to be beautiful or artistic or some kind of high level that can be seen only by the brilliant, you have a broken mind or you're merely a dumb beast, and I mean dumb. Even animals can have more composure, control, and fidelity.That's why women call men pigs if they are below human standard of morality, and why people are referred to as dogs, or cockroaches, or rats. Some people are like pigs, dogs, and rats, and aren't human at all.People are born as wild beasts, it takes their effort and learning and the doing that earns them the title of human, or man, or woman.You might be of the female or male gender, but that doesn't make you a human.You might have the body, but you don't have the mind or the heart or the spirit or the soul.Humans are deeds, knowledge, spirit, principles, morality, respect, honor.If you're merely emotions and sexuality, you're nothing more than a mere mindless dumb organism that reproduces.Only worse, because though being born with the heritage of aspiring to be human, you degrade yourself below your own minimum quota to be called what you were given, and actually go levels downward. Going above and beyond to be like a cancer, a plague, a disease, an abomination, a thing of disgust and horror.Even if this movie was merely a movie, if you sympathized with the main character or the story, know that there's a difference between you and an actual human.If you can't even refrain from having fornication from someone, what are you. You're a joke, a failure of will and values, who is not suitable to run his or her own life, nor to make his or her own decisions, or to be given authority to do anything, for nothing could be entrusted to such a thing, as we do not entrust such things to wild and dumb beasts.Authority, will, control, choices, that is a thing for civilized, principled, and disciplined beings.Human is an earned title.

farron34 Wow, I was pleasantly surprised by this film. I wasn't expecting much, and it held my attention and kept me engaged throughout. The characterization is quiet and powerful, and the writing is excellent. Not really predictable at all, which made it refreshing. A great, subtle blend of comedy and drama. This is a very strong feature directorial debut for Pickering, who also wrote the film. (He has another film in pre-pro for release next year – I will most definitely make a note to see it). Very textured story, great writing, with lots of great metaphors and offers many poignant critiques of gray areas of culture, religion, and relationships. The acting, editing, and score are also excellent.

zetes An okay indie flick bolstered by a fantastic lead performance by comedienne Rachael Harris. Harris is probably best known for playing Ed Helms' wife in The Hangover, or perhaps for her appearances on The Daily Show or VH1's I Love the '70s/80s/whatever. One could never have predicted the depth she gives to her character here. She plays a sexless, Christian housewife whose husband (John Diehl) suffers from a stroke. It comes to light that, though he refuses to sleep with her, he frequents the local sperm bank. Harris feels betrayed, but her husband is at death's door, so she attempts to forgive him. He mutters, perhaps from delirium, that she needs to find a long lost son, and she sets out to find the young man. Matt O'Leary plays the drug addict she finds, and, attempting to escape the sheriff, he takes off with her on a road trip. O'Leary is quite good himself, but, again, it's Harris' movie. The film starts off a little snarky about the whole situation, but Harris takes her character's dilemma seriously and plays her as a woman in deep emotional turmoil. The film is a dramedy, and it's often very funny. But Harris' dramatic moments are the ones you're going to remember. She's a true revelation here, turning in one of the best performances of the year.

JustCuriosity Robbie Pickering had its World Premiere at SXSW where it was well-received and earned several awards. It is sort of an odd film about the struggles of damaged people. Natural Selection could be described as partially a critique of fundamentalist religion, part road trip film, and part human tragedy. It is the story of Linda who is trapped in a loveless marriage. She goes on a trip looking for one thing and discovers parts of herself that she didn't know existed. The script is well-written and the film is well-acted – especially considering this is the writer/director's first feature film. The film avoids easy answers or simple judgments to complex questions. The character development for the two main characters is nuanced and provocative. In the end, the audience may be left with more questions than answers. The film seeks intended as a critique of dogmatism, but offers the viewer little in the way of alternative answers to hang on to.