PAL format disc does not play on American machines
Amazon continues to advertise this disc as playable in all regions. After receiving the same PAL format in two different orders they have updated the format to show PAL instead of NTSC. Don't order this copy if you live in the United States, unless you have access to a PAL machine
Timeless
This film is a masterpiece, Mon oncle d'Amerique, Alain Renais directed a movie faithful to the scientist's work, the use of archive footage in the middle of the movie brings it a level of warmth that makes up for some of the coolness in the other parts of the film. Henri Laborit uses three people to discuss theories of survival, competition, rewards and anxiety. Rene is a manager of textiles who faces corporate downsizing, Janine an actress having an affair, and Jean who is a writer and politician.
It's perfect and cannot compare to other movies in the genre, it is parlayed into narrative episodes and odes where the chorus, in this case psychologist Laborit, explains the meaning of the episodes, it makes clear the pretenance to everyday life of a discourse which is very rich as an interpretation of life, in exactly Matthew Arnold's sense, but at the same time so abstract that most people just, for example, reading Laborit's "Decoding the human message" would not see the...
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