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Originally Posted by 2BNTV
I watched some of Forrest Gump last night. Great performances by Sally Field and Tom Hanks.
I too find it interesting when viewing movies that I've seen hundreds of times, to pick-up something new.
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I have kind of a unique relationship to movies. Of course, it could all be in my head as well.
My mother and I went to see
Outbreak that first week it opened at the movie theater in Petaluma, CA in 1995.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/
Petaluma, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
When they showed a certain scene where the number 613 comes up in the movie, the man behind me whispered in my ear "Did you see that?"
I thought I must be going crazy as I did not know this man but did go to that theater on a regular basis. NO ONE has ever told me one way or another. Hope can do crazy things to you.
Why is this number important to me? I had fought for the right of access to practical information for survivors/victims of crimes using the numbers 224 and 613 from mid-1993 onward. 224 is my birthday and 613 was my subject number in a late 1992-1993 study on stress on the unemployed at the U of California SF School of Public Health. I was getting a reputation in Sonoma County, CA and a judge at the Sonoma County Courthouse even had acknowledged my efforts when I was on the jury panel for a drug trafficking court case but was thrown off the panel by the prosecutor. Never could figure that one out. I thought it would have been the defense that put in the challenge.
My efforts on the cause of access to practical information by then were international but I often felt like I was getting nowhere until I heard that whisper from that man behind me at the Petaluma Theater. Of course, it could have just been something I misheard given how much hope I had put into all of my work making some impact. I did not track the man now and ask him what he meant as I never have liked causing a scene especially one that could have ended with me in a straight jacket.