Jons can see Death

I'm referring to the part at the very end when Jons goes to open the door and he comes back saying that "I saw no one" (or something to that effect). I think it's false to assume he couldn't actually see death, because when he sits down he passes a sly look at Block - and then Block knows the hour has come. The reason he didn't say it was death is because he believes in living life to the very last moment and knows that he has a strong enough character to do so even if he knows that death is a few minutes away. However, as I said in another post, he knows that the fools around him don't have that strength, and so to protect them (in line with his "protecting everyone" motif) he will spare them the agony until Death himself shows up in the passageway. So yet again, Jons saves the day.

Burn After Reading

Burn After Reading, the romantic/ironic/sometimes hard to follow comedy with George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and bunch of other famous people was definitely something new and worthy of the 90 minutes spent not doing much need physics hw.

I'd like to say only one thing about it: it's a beautiful example of the chaos we keep speaking of in class. The insignificant events that escalate into full fledged horrors simply due to misunderstading, wrong-place-wrong-time-ness, and equally as random human emotion. It really rings true to the "butterfly flapping its wings on one continent causing a hurricane on the next" concept.

I know this is vague, but if any of you have the time to watch this, I would definitely recommend it. (Just brace yourself for an opening half hour of hard to follow randomness, but it clears up quick after that).

First Post

Although I only saw the last 40 minutes or so of Runaway Train, we discussed it in class so I'll comment briefly on it. Good movie, although yes, many technical errors. Just an aside on the dead man's switch - back in the motherland my dad operated large cargo trains on the BAM and that button you have to press every 30 sec to make sure you're alive becomes second nature - he tells me he would fall asleep but still be pressing every 30 sec b/c it was just learned habit. Bottom line, it's not foolproof.
Anyways, I haven't seen much about the guy that Ranken sends to first get on the train who gets killed instantly. Call me oversensitive or nit picky, but at first we thought three people were going to die and in the end three people did die - just Sarah and Buck were swapped for unnamed dead man and Ranken. What's that about? Is it that in the end life is indiscriminate of who gets killed, as long as someone bites the dust? Or is that some are disposable and some aren't? I have to go to class...to be continued.