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Today there will only be replies to your replies and a tiny bit of material about one of my favorite films.

That's how it is — if you don't know where a hedgehog's anus is, you won't get much oil.

Geophysicist — a subject capable of briskly manipulating infinite series of incomprehensible formulas derived with microscopic precision from indeterminate assumptions based on questionable data obtained from unconvincing experiments performed with uncontrolled equipment by persons of dubious reliability and uncertain mental capacity. And all this — with the openly acknowledged purpose of irritating and confusing a group of fanatics known as geologists, who, in turn, are a parasitic layer surrounding the honest and hard-working drillers.

(c) Journal of Petroleum Technology

The last ones are the ones who extract the oil.

And where are the dinosaurs?

No time for paleozoology — today was a colloquium on hedgehogs and the rest, and then other sections follow — stratigraphy, for example. Though dinosaur fossil remains are present at the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

And here at our biology faculty, instead of "smoking cigarettes" they say "buy half a liter." There's also an outdated version: "wait a bit, Anton" — back when the Anthropogene was distinguished separately.

The Quaternary period is still distinguished separately to this day.

And now about the film.Yesterday I blew the minds of four more people with this film...

- I want to be him! To be John Malkovich!
- Ah... I see. Well, that can be arranged.
(Dialogue between Cameron Diaz and Orson Bean, from the film)

Some call this film a psychological drama — the characters truly experience love and suffering; others see a deep philosophical subtext in it — the most obvious question of this kind is the film's tagline ("Ever wanted to be someone else?"); still others consider it a farce, since all the characters are mentally ill and abnormal to one degree or another, and the events are absurd. I'll simply say that it's one of my favorite films, a brilliant creation by screenwriter Charlie Kaufman.

There are three truly unusual and mind-blowing scenes in the film, especially the one where Malkovich ends up inside himself.

The film can also be freely torn apart for quotes.
- I'll make lasagna, we'll smoke some hash, and we'll all feel great. (Cameron Diaz's character, about inviting someone over)

Of everyone I know, no one had seen this film before meeting me. Therefore, I doubt even a few HeroesWorld members have watched it before, and I strongly recommend correcting that oversight. I would be glad to hear your opinion about the film.