Totenkindly
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I just finished watching one of my favorite movies ever -- Cameron's "The Abyss". The conflict is far more situational, less epic, than some of his other movies... but pretty much characterization and relationship is the heart of the movie in ways that surpass his current movie "Avatar."
I love Lindsey as a character, not just because of her strength and the weird mix of acerbics mixed later with emotional vulnerability, but her strong T nature that asserts itself in situations.
Throughout the picture she was a tendency to obsess with things and tech, as when she is doting over her rig or complaining about how other people are abusing it; and she definitely shows a Directing quality in her nature, in that she instinctively challenges and tries to control people and situations even when it is beyond her authority or power to do so. It's also interesting how she keeps her soon-to-be-ex husband at bay; it's clear he can't let go, not because he's imbalanced but because he just really loves who she is even when it's hurting him, but she manages to dance away from his emotional overtures, viewing them almost as snares to her independence.
But my favorite scene is still the one in the broken sub, which is quickly filling with water. Bud has the suit on, it's the only one they have; they can't fix the leak because it's trapped behind a bolted panel; no one can come for them in time; and he doesn't have enough time to go back and return with another suit. Bud says, "You're smart, think of something!" You can almost see the detached little cogs whirling inside her head as she steps out of the problem and views it from above and sees the best answer they've got, although she reviews other options first. When Bud decides to take charge and start taking off his suit to give to her (which would ensure his death, but one of his strong drives in life is to protect her, despite everything), she stops him by revealing the idea that probably leaped into her mind at the beginning:
But the most real part... he goes under the water to put the helmet on, momentarily detaching, leaving her alone in the small air pocket... and now she realizes what she has committed to, now that the moment of impersonal clarity has passed, and breaks down:
And then she goes under, and kisses him on the face plate, and drowns.
I think the whole scene did a remarkable job at showing a Thinking process at work, while retaining the humanity and emotions of the thinker. Lindsey is still guided by her rationality, but she is still very human, and in this scene and a later one, where the rational wall disintegrates (where she's trying to encourage Bud but remaining impersonal, and Lisa instructs her to TALK to him, and she veer into the extremely personal to expose her feelings), we see it clearly.
I love Lindsey as a character, not just because of her strength and the weird mix of acerbics mixed later with emotional vulnerability, but her strong T nature that asserts itself in situations.
Throughout the picture she was a tendency to obsess with things and tech, as when she is doting over her rig or complaining about how other people are abusing it; and she definitely shows a Directing quality in her nature, in that she instinctively challenges and tries to control people and situations even when it is beyond her authority or power to do so. It's also interesting how she keeps her soon-to-be-ex husband at bay; it's clear he can't let go, not because he's imbalanced but because he just really loves who she is even when it's hurting him, but she manages to dance away from his emotional overtures, viewing them almost as snares to her independence.
But my favorite scene is still the one in the broken sub, which is quickly filling with water. Bud has the suit on, it's the only one they have; they can't fix the leak because it's trapped behind a bolted panel; no one can come for them in time; and he doesn't have enough time to go back and return with another suit. Bud says, "You're smart, think of something!" You can almost see the detached little cogs whirling inside her head as she steps out of the problem and views it from above and sees the best answer they've got, although she reviews other options first. When Bud decides to take charge and start taking off his suit to give to her (which would ensure his death, but one of his strong drives in life is to protect her, despite everything), she stops him by revealing the idea that probably leaped into her mind at the beginning:
But the most real part... he goes under the water to put the helmet on, momentarily detaching, leaving her alone in the small air pocket... and now she realizes what she has committed to, now that the moment of impersonal clarity has passed, and breaks down:
And then she goes under, and kisses him on the face plate, and drowns.
I think the whole scene did a remarkable job at showing a Thinking process at work, while retaining the humanity and emotions of the thinker. Lindsey is still guided by her rationality, but she is still very human, and in this scene and a later one, where the rational wall disintegrates (where she's trying to encourage Bud but remaining impersonal, and Lisa instructs her to TALK to him, and she veer into the extremely personal to expose her feelings), we see it clearly.
