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Member Since: October 2006 Posts: 6,889 Send Message	RolloTheRed	Report	25 Jul 2014 17:53
	Recently the beeb has re shown the excellent series "Heart of Darkness" which dates from the middle ages aka the 1980s. What is very obvious is that although a computer system is central to the plot nobody has any sort of communications device (except the police with crude radios ) and thus to my younger rellies the story line becomes more and more bizarre. Some years later HOD was remade set in the US complete with mobile phones and imho was the better movie. Especially in relation to mobile phones ( not fixed computers, windows, internet, plods in flat caps etc ) does anybody else feel that those born before 1970 lived in a world as cut off from today's archipelago as when tv arrived big time in the 1950s, cheap steam trains and so on ? For myself I find watching movies/tv such as Morse or the Trotters and mentally filing it into "period movies" along with Middlemarch and "Peaky Blinders" quite odd.
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