In Don DeLillo's "Underworld," a woman named Klara watches that film, the most famous home movie ever shot, in a private art installation in New York, where it is being screened in several rooms at different speeds, and she feels that it somehow exposes the workings of the mind: The footage seemed to advance some argument about the nature of film itself….
Yet despite what all the hype and mind boggling footage may imply, this is far from the first weapons system the American military has ever tested, or the first footage of such tests ever released.
The message is worthy, but one that Cosmos, uniquely, manages to deliver in a blaze of mind-blowing footage.
While there's plenty of human drama, with the film focusing on some of the maverick racers who annually risk life and limb on the circuit, it's the mind-bending footage of the TT that truly grips.
The "mind-blowing" footage was recorded by members of Pembrokeshire-based Sea Trust on a routine survey.
Her attempt at Bad News Bears style redemption seems futile in the mind-melting footage so far, but we do get to see the different ways her slacker teammates are mutilated and quickly healed thanks to googly-eyed amoebas making Ballmastrz: 9009 a near-infinite canvas for the Walt Disney of ultraviolence.
I hope whoever is documenting these Roundhouse shows has the presence of mind to shoot footage of this.
Sophistication is a state of mind, not square footage, as any New York real estate agent will tell you.
The anthemic Empire State of Mind, accompanied by footage of Broadway and the Statue of Liberty, brought things to a triumphant conclusion.
It's not just the scale, the mind-blowing square footage, that is shocking about this – it's the principle.
