And as for JR – well, he's a shadow of his former self, confined to a nursing home with clinical depression.
"If we don't self-confine with our safety belts, we are treated as criminals: tickets and fines are issued.
They argue that if the definition of the self is confined to a body that generates data, the ability to process experiencing and achieve self-understanding will atrophy.
What it gets right: Until the very end, Will Caster's AI self is confined entirely to the digital world; he exists solely as a computer program.
The new movie, which stars Cynthia Nixon, lets a radiant, riotous, insolent humor illuminate the self-imposed confines of Dickinson's family circle and the boundaries of conventional thought and behavior that reinforced her sense of isolation.
Michael's imagination ricochets off the self-imposed confines of genre conventions like squash balls off the walls of a court, and he joins with Loren in the comic conjuring of the borderline despair of chasing down decades of opportunities in a single gambit.
His output is all within the self-induced confines of a rational process that is defined and re-defined based on results, and whim.
Chittenden and Tzu-yi are expressive actors, but, like the film itself, are hamstrung by the project's self-imposed confines.
