In that case we might as well offer _Carry on at your Convenience_, which has a chirping budgie that can predict winners on the gee-gees.
Oh, and I just remembered _The Dead Zone_(1983).
Damian
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From: Film-Philosophy Salon on behalf of Jim Flannery
Sent: Mon 13/06/2005 02:55
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Subject: Re: films which predict the future
Well, three messages in and we've already had two different
interpretations of this question (isn't "philosophy" at least
partially about using words to construct fine distinctions?).
One distinction might be: there's a difference between "messenger from
the future trying to change his own past in 'our' present" and "person
in 'our' present trying to predict 'our' future".
_Donnie Darko_ and _12 Monkeys_ both follow the former pattern (along
with the latter's original _La Jetee_, _The Terminator_, the recent
Catalan film _Tempus Fugit_ by Enric Folch, all those fantasies about
killing Hitler in his childhood, etc.
_Minority Report_, suggested by the person asking the question,
follows the latter pattern, as does _Night Has a Thousand Eyes_. A
recent film in this vein is Marek Najbrt's _Champions_, in which a
bunch of hockey fans in a rural Czech village discover that the town
idiot has precognitions of each day's tournament game if he's
sufficiently drunk, and conspire to keep him besotted long enough to
bet on the final game (the film is set during the 1969 World
Champtionship). (cp Billy Mumy's talent for picking horses for
gamblers in _Dear Brigitte..._)
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