The Human Popsicle

In Philip K. Dick's story, "The Frozen Journey", a man is awakened during a ten year journey, only to find he cannot do anything but swim in his own subdued memories. Now this would be torture to me. When I look back on things, I always end up nitpicking every little detail, and constantly reliving the parts I messed up. Combine that with an attention span that's practically nonexistent, and it would make one hell of a time for me.
Back to the nitpicking thing though. I feel like that's something that everybody does to some extent. We have such a desire to fix the things that we did wrong, that we end up trying to make amends somehow through constantly replaying it in our heads. I think the amount we end up doing this gives some insight into our psyche. It shows how much even extremely small mistakes can bother us. I also think it can show how much we care about people. You'll probably end up remembering saying something stupid to a crush in 8th grade more clearly than saying something dumb to a stranger a few days ago.
I think that no matter how much we care about things that happen in the past though, we'd all end up corrupting our memories in some way

Doubting Clarke

    One of the creators of "2001: A Space Odyssey" didn't really have faith in the intelligence of the audience. I found it very interesting in how different the level of explanation differed between the novel and the movie. Kubrick went very light on explanation in the film, but Clarke explained a lot more in his novel, which he released as the film was being produced.

    Now I think this shows a great rift in the trust the 2 creators had in their audience's intelligence. It seems as though Kubrick was very confident in the way he showed the story, and that he thought he had provided enough detail to at least give the audience a clue of what was going on. Clarke on the other hand believed many things needed to be explained or the audience would not be able to pick up on what was going on.

    The film was not received well at all, as droves of people walked out confused, and angered that they had just wasted their money. I think this along the fact that I had no idea what was going on prove that Clarke was right in doubting us.