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Nothing Lasts Forever
1984 · Film · 82 min
Directed by Tom Schiller
RomanceScience FictionFantasyComedyDrama
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
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There's a great documentary about this called Nothing Lasts Forever which I think I caught on Netflix.
The outfits with big skin in the natural/mined diamond sector have told a story about something that's been in the ground for eons and being pulled out and turned into something special as a symbol of love, and hoping that turns people away from synthetics. It's just story telling. You can see the romance in it, but the price differential is huge.
There are various attempts to keep the synthetics out, and/or identifiable, but even the main players are admitting that a significant percentage of synthetics are now in the naturals market, nobody knows how many, and that they're undetectable. That means the naturals market has to come back to actual costs plus some markup over what they've been for 100+ years: costs plus insane markups.
Definitely weird. He appears (briefly) in a weird movie too: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/ I bet you wouldn't expect that Dr Bronner, Bill Murray, Eddie Fisher and the tough guy from Reservoir Dogs are all in one film.
Here's a film that I'd like to see released properly: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087817/ Nothing Lasts Forever (1984). It even has many major stars in it, notably Bill Murray.