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...vacuum of space, what would the tremendous pulling power of the black hole do to the moon and its effects on our tides? What if the black hole crashed into the earth's surface because of the pull of the earth's gravity? If they tamper with the forces of nature in space, they might destroy...
...Catholicism. The surrealism here is not extraneous or forced-it arises out of the material. Instead of a shock show of the contorted and bizarre, the film glides with the constant expectation of something more subtly strange, the ever-present possibility that some grazing sleight of hand will tamper with reality just enough to dip the action into a world of dreams. When Tristana climbs the bell-tower, with the deaf boy behind and looking up her skirt, she comes upon the bloodied, severed head of the gentleman, swinging crazily from the church bell. And the vision delicately propels...
...miss what he's saying because the cadence is so interesting. It's nitpicking to say that this style was gimmicky compared to Eve's, which didn't have to vary the stress. There was an instinctive feeling for dynamics and speed variation that didn't need to tamper with the natural rhythm of the language...
...need for an alternative source of power. Another of the Rippe engines, the 911 pumper, was designed to enable water to run in whatever direction it wanted, including uphill. Nearly every piece in the show is supposed to pump either water or air, though why their inventor wanted to tamper with the elements in the first place is left unexplained. The machines' alleged creator, Jim Rippe's mythical great-uncle Jeremiah, was a visionary, not a man of the world. Consequently, his creations are best considered not as merely functional engines, but as mile-stones along his road to salvation...
Would never want to tamper; it flows south...