Comments on: 3 Needles http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/ We seem to be haunted by the randomness of life and alternate versions of reality. Sat, 26 Jun 2010 00:04:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Eduardo http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/comment-page-1/#comment-62225 Eduardo Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:20:59 +0000 http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/#comment-62225 I liked the movie overall. I didnt understand the beginning about "becoming a man", or how it tied in with the rest of the story, but I actually enjoyed this film. Chloe Sevigny is good in anything that she does. And this film proved that. I guess I didnt see it correctly, but I could have sworn that all three nuns get raped. Maybe I "thought" that Chloe Sevigny's character was having tape over her mouth and I imagined that to be an act of rape. But I really did like this film. I liked the movie overall. I didnt understand the beginning about “becoming a man”, or how it tied in with the rest of the story, but I actually enjoyed this film. Chloe Sevigny is good in anything that she does. And this film proved that. I guess I didnt see it correctly, but I could have sworn that all three nuns get raped. Maybe I “thought” that Chloe Sevigny’s character was having tape over her mouth and I imagined that to be an act of rape. But I really did like this film.

]]> By: Ty http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/comment-page-1/#comment-861 Ty Sun, 04 Jun 2006 21:52:31 +0000 http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/#comment-861 Thanks, I got it now. But isn't it the government's (or politicians') fault? In a poor area, villagers porbably don't even know what HIV is. Facing an unknown illness (due to the lack of information), without medicine as an option (because of poverty), they can either wait for the coming of death or pray to some sort of God but nothing else. I guess you are right; it's a blind faith in some sort of superior creature. But if you don't know where to get the resolution, what can you do? I think it is different from the situation that people know where/how to seek for medicine but they choose to wait for miracles spared by that God. Thanks, I got it now. But isn’t it the government’s (or politicians’) fault? In a poor area, villagers porbably don’t even know what HIV is. Facing an unknown illness (due to the lack of information), without medicine as an option (because of poverty), they can either wait for the coming of death or pray to some sort of God but nothing else. I guess you are right; it’s a blind faith in some sort of superior creature. But if you don’t know where to get the resolution, what can you do? I think it is different from the situation that people know where/how to seek for medicine but they choose to wait for miracles spared by that God.

]]> By: jason http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/comment-page-1/#comment-859 jason Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:51:13 +0000 http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/#comment-859 i didn't really explain the connection made between buddhism and hiv... it mostly had to do with the fact that when the villagers started getting sick, they put their faith in buddha that he would somehow make them better. the connection certainly isn't as damning as the one between hiv and christianity, but i think it suggested an overall theme where people would rather escape and pray to some sort of god than seek help or something (not that there was any help/medicine that the villagers could have gotten). i didn’t really explain the connection made between buddhism and hiv… it mostly had to do with the fact that when the villagers started getting sick, they put their faith in buddha that he would somehow make them better.

the connection certainly isn’t as damning as the one between hiv and christianity, but i think it suggested an overall theme where people would rather escape and pray to some sort of god than seek help or something (not that there was any help/medicine that the villagers could have gotten).

]]> By: Ty http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/comment-page-1/#comment-858 Ty Sun, 04 Jun 2006 17:46:09 +0000 http://thecompany.net/jason/posts/2006/3-needles/#comment-858 I sort of understand the blind faith in Christian God and the spread of HIV. I don't know the African mythology, so I have no comment on that. But sorry, I don't see the connection between the faith in Buddha and HIV. To me, in mainland china, the whole corrupt government system and poverty are the original sin. During the Cultural Revolution conducted by Mao, people in china did anything in order to survive. The bane is still seen and the historical trauma will never recover. Human right is never an issue in mainland china because there is no human right at all, especially if you are poor (kinda like the US, isn't it?). That's the first part of the movie about; it's unbelievable, it's sad, but it's true. So, I cannot agree with you at the Buddhism part. Don't forget, in Asia, religion is not that important in life as that is in the US. Also, Buddhists don't promote their region like Christians do. I really cannot make the connection between the faith in Buddha and the spread of HIV. I sort of understand the blind faith in Christian God and the spread of HIV. I don’t know the African mythology, so I have no comment on that. But sorry, I don’t see the connection between the faith in Buddha and HIV.

To me, in mainland china, the whole corrupt government system and poverty are the original sin. During the Cultural Revolution conducted by Mao, people in china did anything in order to survive. The bane is still seen and the historical trauma will never recover. Human right is never an issue in mainland china because there is no human right at all, especially if you are poor (kinda like the US, isn’t it?). That’s the first part of the movie about; it’s unbelievable, it’s sad, but it’s true.

So, I cannot agree with you at the Buddhism part. Don’t forget, in Asia, religion is not that important in life as that is in the US. Also, Buddhists don’t promote their region like Christians do. I really cannot make the connection between the faith in Buddha and the spread of HIV.

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