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American Movie Archives (美國電影檔案)
- Title
- Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
- Year
- 1958
- Abstract
- Imaginative film showing how automatic gadgets in homes and workplaces alienate people from one another.
- Notes
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Produced: University of Southern Califonia (student film)
Sponsor: N/A
Run Time: 14:21
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W - Keyword
- Technology: Critiques; Automation;Consumerism; Automation;Consumerism
- Theme
- Cold, heartless and fascnating.
- Review
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A very odd and troubling film, which, on the surface seems to tell about how wonderful automation is in 1958 America. But, as time goes on, what it REALLY is about is how automation seems to have detached everyone from everyone else. Very little is said to one other directly. Whenever someone DOES say something to each other it's either a) through technology or b) not responded to at all. The Husband, Wife, and Child in the film never seem to converse to each other (except when the Mother tells the kid to go to bed, the kid doesnt answer, he just goes off).
Has technology led us to be robots in our normal social lives? Even at the end of the film, when the husband gets a cigarette from a gawdy cigarette carousel, he's not impressed with it at all, it's just there to give him a smoke.
(Reviewer: Spuzz) - Location
- A/V room, 2/F