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Body Parts

1991 · Film · 88 min

Directed by Eric Red

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A criminal psychologist loses his arm in a car crash, and becomes one of three patients to have their missing limbs replaced by those belonging to an executed serial killer. One of them dies violently, and disturbing occurrences start happening to the surviving two.

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  1. NeutralAStonesThrowSep 20, 2024

    And yet, we have expressions like, "second brain", "muscle memory", "courage", "heartfelt apology", "gut feeling".

    And you rephrased the premise. I did not write it the way you did.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question

    As much as your scientism and medical specialists may try to suppress evidence to the contrary, bodies are organic systems that amount to more than the sum of parts. And we cannot hack away at a body without disrupting its integrity--have you heard of "phantom limb syndrome"?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb

    Was Mary Shelley the consciousness expert?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_Parts_(film) [credit to Gemini AI, for correctly naming the film from my one-sentence description and incorrect "1980s" time frame.]