The Incredible Shrinking Man

[pokerfan]

I haven't seen this classic in years:



On ThisTV...

:bounce:

[nolabear]

1. I saw it this weekend. Great movie.

It never scared me but I was fascinated by it as a kid. Now I can't help but keep track of what things got really big and what didn't. like his pencil was huge but the notebook wasn't.

In some ways being a grownup sucks.

[pokerfan]

3. As a kid

I never noticed how attractive the wife (Randy Stewart) was...



Ah, the things you miss out on when you're eight years old.

[Swede]

2. Still a favorite of mine.

I love the closing soliloquy.

SPOILERS IN THE VIDEO LINK:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3iHjGBfT4

[pokerfan]

4. can you spoil a movie that's more than fifty years old?

"I was continuing to shrink, to become... what? The infinitesimal? What was I? Still a human being? Or was I the man of the future? If there were other bursts of radiation, other clouds drifting across seas and continents, would other beings follow me into this vast new world? So close - the infinitesimal and the infinite. But suddenly, I knew they were really the two ends of the same concept. The unbelievably small and the unbelievably vast eventually meet - like the closing of a gigantic circle. I looked up, as if somehow I would grasp the heavens. The universe, worlds beyond number, God's silver tapestry spread across the night. And in that moment, I knew the answer to the riddle of the infinite. I had thought in terms of man's own limited dimension. I had presumed upon nature. That existence begins and ends in man's conception, not nature's. And I felt my body dwindling, melting, becoming nothing. My fears melted away. And in their place came acceptance. All this vast majesty of creation, it had to mean something. And then I meant something, too. Yes, smaller than the smallest, I meant something, too. To God, there is no zero. I still exist!"

Back in, dare I say, more literate times.


The author, Richard Matheson, in 2008,

[HopeHoops]

5. "That's what SHE said!"