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Powder


Most likely written by some kind of nut, the film is indeed
strange. is the story of an albilno completely hairless teenager who has
the power to use an extraordinary amount of his brain capacity. is the
archetypal outsider.Edward Lightning Hands might be a more fitting name for all
the overuse of the already worn out “Boo Radley-like misfit who is also a
despised prophet” type theme. Aside from its lack of orignality it is also
typically “hollywood” in it's blatant overuse of moral superlatives.
“The most advanced intellect in the history of mankind,” is how one of
the films many protagonistic representatives of society describes Powders
eidetic memory and off the scale IQ.The writer ...

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people, Powder belives in a
unification of all humans, every single one, through some sort of single-
consciousness. The idea of using Powder as a role model can work, but the
audience has to view powder as being worthy. Here Powder views people, unwilling
to accept the idea of a single-consciousness solely on faith, as closed-minded.
This dogmatic type of view nullifies any worth powder might have had as a role
model, and it dooms any chance the message of the film, which supposedly
presents a different, better, and higher, view of things, ever had of
influencing people.
Besides the implied message, the film itself is just plain awful. With
cliché after cliché and an abundance of predictable scenes, its a wonder anyone
could think this movie was worth making. A semi-conscious two-year old could
predict exactly what would happen next, and who would suddenly reappear in the
film. The whole addition of a love interest was inane and irrelevant to the
point the writer was trying to ...

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Added: 2/15/2004 12:52:12 PM
Category: Arts
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