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[testing4l]

My first set of screencaps -- Tarkovsky's Solaris (1972). I guess the best way to describe it would be a love story in space, but that doesn't do the source material justice. The source material was an extended example of how difficult it would be for mankind to communicate with another form of sentient life. There's a great speech in the movie

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[jordan179]

Apparently, it's because a police officer in Toronto suggested that if you don't want to get raped, then you shouldn't dress like a "slut". This was interpreted with some validity as an authority blaming the victim of the crime, rather than the criminal who committed the crime.

The Toronto Police Department is also responsible for the rather unique legal theory that, if you're attacked by a group for taking a photograph of one of them, and they beat you about the head, it's not an arrestable offense provided that they were "only trying to take the camera." In other words, forcible theft is legal.

Ah, the Toronto police never recovered from the deaths of two of their Homicide Department Chiefs and three of their Detectives in that whole affair centering on Nick Knight ...