{"id":12095,"date":"2012-10-30T09:54:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12095"},"modified":"2012-10-30T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-30T14:54:14","slug":"sometimes-when-you-look-into-the-abyss-you-look-beyond-the-abyss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/30\/sometimes-when-you-look-into-the-abyss-you-look-beyond-the-abyss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes, When You Look Into The Abyss<\/i>, You Look Beyond The Abyss<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

My beautiful wife is traveling for business this week, which means it’s film festival time at Nogglestead. In the olden days, I’d watch two or three a night, but now I have children who like to get up at 5:30 in the morning, so it’s only one a night. Last night, I watched the James Cameron film The Abyss<\/em><\/a> from 1989 (twenty-three years old? How old am I<\/em> then?).<\/p>\n

\"VHS<\/a>I hadn’t seen it before, but I found it to be a perfectly serviceable little action\/science fictioner. It’s a real bummer that the “bad guy” in this is really just a Navy SEAL suffering from temporary insanity induced by the pressure change being under the sea. As such, I really felt kinda bad for him throughout the film and hoped he’d be redeemed somehow.<\/p>\n

But that’s neither here nor there. As I’m watching the film, I’m struck by some of the meta considerations about the actors and whatnot in the film.<\/p>\n

Consider:<\/p>\n