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A Pure Formality
Una pura formalità
1994 · Film · 111 min
Directed by Giuseppe Tornatore
Famous writer Onoff is now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
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The cross section of a bullet is much smaller than the cross section of your brain. plenty of people have survived penetrations of the brain. Even if it is fatal, it is not necessarily instantaneous: check out "A Pure Formality", a magnificent movie that will horrify even the staunchest, unflinching atheist.
From wikipedia's page on LN2:
> the liquid-to-gas expansion ratio of nitrogen is 1:694 at 20 °C (68 °F)
(so it can easily displace a lot of air in a small volume and)
>As liquid nitrogen evaporates it reduces the oxygen concentration in the air and can act as an asphyxiant, especially in confined spaces. Nitrogen is odorless, colorless, and tasteless and may produce asphyxia without any sensation or prior warning
oh, this is a classic!
A lot of people (especially atheists, like me) have an oversimplified concept of dying. One can be perfectly atheist and realize that apart from the waking horrors of a decaying body, the experience of death itself can still be enormously horrible in certain ways of dying.
I highly recommend the movie "A Pure Formality", if you like to trivialize death! It's the worst horror movie I have seen, and there is absolutely zero blood, slashing, nor sudden scare moments... and yet I assure you it is the biggest horror, it is pure psychological horror.
I am very happy that I have seen this movie, somehow knowing how horrible something can be sort of mentally prepares you for it...