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...most common conceit about our future, of course, is that the kind of cash we will most want to use will be digital. But the paperless wallet has proved as practical as the paperless office. In late 1997, two New York City banks tried an experiment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. They spent millions installing special digital-cash-card machines in all kinds of retail sites--hairdressers, retail stores, even taxicabs. Then they distributed--for free--smart digital cards. Surely, if digital cash was this easy to use, people would stop using the green stuff. Wrong...
None of which is to say Fail Safe can't rivet viewers, using one advantage of TV: as Clooney says, "Films can't go live." It's certainly more gutsy than the live ER of 1997, whose conceit--a news crew filming in the hospital--excused gaffes as "nerves" on the part of characters. If Fail Safe succeeds, Clooney hopes to do a live A Patch of Blue starring Cheadle. If it bombs (groan), the world will survive. But for live TV, there may be fallout indeed...
...This is not to say that Errol Morris has entirely given up on truth, although his views on the matter are notably more complex than those of most documentarians. "It seems a very odd conceit that film itself is a vehicle of truth, per se. It can be, but truth isn't something that's served on a platter. To me, truth is a linguistic kind of thing." As a result, he rejects the traditionally dichotomous relationship between documentary and feature filmmaking...
...misleadingly straightforward, observational style, this film includes entire scenes shot as reenactments. "I've been accused of creating reenactment television," Morris says, "but the reenactments in The Thin Blue Line are all ironic, they never purport to show you what happened. When I see reenactment television the conceit is that they're actually showing you what happened, whereas in my film, it's exactly the opposite...
Gandhi, unlike Roosevelt, was the earthly embodiment of humility, so much so that at times it threatened to become a conceit. He taught us that we should value the civil liberties and individual rights of other human beings, and he lived for (and was killed for) preaching tolerance and pluralism. By exhibiting these virtues, which the century has amply taught us are essential to civilization, we express the humility and humanity that come from respecting people who are different from...