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	Human nature - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human nature is the fundamental nature and substance of humans, as well as the range of human behavior that is believed to be invariant over long periods of time and across very different cultural contexts.
		According to Hobbes, humans in the state of nature are inherently in a "war of all against all," and life in that state is ultimately "nasty, brutish, and short." To Hobbes, this state of nature is remedied by good government.
		State of nature refers to philosophical assertions regarding the condition of humans before social factors are imposed, thus attempting to describe the "natural essence" of human nature.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_nature (3026 words)

	Human Nature (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human Nature is a 2001 comedy film, written by Charlie Kaufman and directed by Michel Gondry.
		Starring Tim Robbins, Rhys Ifans, and Patricia Arquette, the film focuses on a young man raised as an ape (Ifans) and the molds he is formed in by behavioral scientist Robbins and body-hair-covered Arquette.
		It is loosely based on the Björk video clip Human Behaviour which Michel Gondry directed in 1993.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_Nature_(film) (116 words)

	Human Nature Review :: Hollywood.com
		The philosophical dark comedy Human Nature centers on three characters--an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist and the man they discover born and raised as an ape in the wild--and how they live in a world where both nature and society are idealized.
		Human Nature was actually made a year ago by the French studio Canal + but the U.S. distributor waited until now to release it.
		Nevertheless, the film actually succeeds on some levels.
	www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1107590 (652 words)

	Metroactive Movies 'Human Nature'
		Human Nature features Patricia Arquette as a woman whose life is a thorough tragedy--she goes from being a pariah to a prisoner--yet the film is intended to be whimsical, even fluffy.
		Human Nature's essential pedantry can be seen in the way it explains that Gabrielle isn't really French, she's just pretending to be--as if we didn't have ears to hear the amusing fakery, or the imagination to suppose that a girl might prefer to be a French siren to being a plain American mouse.
		(Human Nature shows how wise it was that Luis Buñuel used to leave so much to the imagination in his own surreal films of ideas.)
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/04.11.02/humannature-0215.html (862 words)

	Nothing Against the Masses, An Interview with Screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, by Sean Nelson (04/11/02)
		Human Nature and Being John Malkovich both deal with classical archetypes: morality vs. desire, artist vs. compromise, man vs. nature kind of stuff.
		But at the same time there are human issues that I'm interested in--issues of isolation and feeling outside, and loneliness, and taking condemnation from a society and turning it on yourself; those are things I'm interested in on a smaller, more personal level.
		That image you picked out is one that Michel [Gondry, director of Human Nature] came up with, and maybe he came up with it based on what he saw in the script.
	cgi.thestranger.com /2002-04-11/film.html (820 words)

	Being Charlie Kaufman - Articles, Interviews, Reviews Human Nature
		As the film about to be discussed was written by Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich"), it won't be easy to describe.
		Being a sensitive girl, she turns to the non-judgment of the nature, moves into the forest, and supports herself by writing goofy, spiritual novels.
		"Human Nature" is really only about one such desire, the need to get laid, and the lengths different characters will go to get laid.
	www.beingcharliekaufman.com /articles/hnfilmthreat.htm (677 words)

	Human Nature review
		As understood, the film is constructed around two antagonisms: that of the nature and civilization found in Puff and the human nature and appearance that affects Lila.
		While the film has without any doubt the touch of madness that seems to characterize Charlie Kaufman's work, it is neither as cerebral nor as original as Being John Malkovich.
		Human Nature is perhaps not a total success but it deserves to be seen for its daring in such a soft cinematic landscape.
	www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/humannature.html (503 words)

	Human Nature - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		Human nature being what it is, Lila strikes gold as a writer of nature (and survival) books.
		But, human sexual nature being even stronger the plain ol' variety, Lila returns to the City when her hormones start raging.
		Human Nature, therefore, is a dissection of how civilized and uncivilized humans come together and how, surprise surprise, they aren't so different that they can't change sides when necessary.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive02/humannature.html (769 words)

	Human Nature
		Man's natural instincts and society's determination to tame and suppress them roil the satirical undercurrents of "Human Nature." The film is a collaboration between French video and commercial director Michel Gondry and screenwriter/co-producer Charlie Kaufman, the Oscar-nominated writer of "Being John Malkovich."
		This is a film of ideas and wry comic mayhem rather than one of technical virtuosity.
		Certainly, Gondry should be congratulated for making a film most atypical of movies that commercial directors tend to make in their initial foray into features.
	hollywoodreporter.com /thr/icopyright_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=871569 (651 words)

	Film Comment: Human Nature: Michel Gondry, USA, 2001. - movie review
		In Human Nature, his follow-up to Being John Malkovich, Kaufman joins forces with French music video director Michel Gondry to create something like a Technicolor musical version of Hans Christian Andersen's Little Mermaid--an indelicate cautionary tale about the dangers of straying too far from your roots.
		Film Comment: Human Nature: Michel Gondry, USA, 2001.
		In "Human Behavior," Bjork sings, "There's definitely, definitely, definitely no logic to human behavior." Human Nature follows the dichotomy embodied in its Neatly oxymoronic title so closely that it simplifies, all too glibly, one of the most intractable human philosophical dilemmas.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1069/is_2_38/ai_86232510 (438 words)

	Human Nature
		Human Nature is the second film writer Charlie Kaufman, whose first was the wonderfully bizarre Being John Malkovich.
		If somebody makes an especially good first film, their second film will not be as good, whether because people were expecting too much or it just wasn't as good.
		Instead, Human Nature prefers to revel in oddness, like how many ways Arquette walk around naked without showing anything, or the various sets that Nathan creates for Puff in Puff's cage.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/human_nature.html (550 words)

	Spy Kids -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		The third film was shot partly in high-definition (Click link for more info and facts about digital video) digital video, using an anaglyphic process to create the (Having a three-dimensional form or appearance) 3-D effects.
		The films also play with the idea of children having adult responsibilities, and how keeping secrets from family members can have a negative effect on relationships.
		For instance, in the first film, a robot army is built to conquer the world.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sp/spy_kids.htm (1799 words)

	MMI Movie Review: Human Nature
		"Human Nature" doesn't sustain the giddy ride of "Being John Malkovich," and unfortunately that's enough to label it a disappointment.
		The bad news is that "Human Nature" is a film made of moments.
		The surprise twist at the end presumes the film was building to an ironic crescendo, but if the notion that we're still slaves to our sexual urges doesn't strike you as particularly fresh or provocative, you won't leave the theater nodding thoughtfully.
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/humannature-cm-72226921.html (535 words)

	Adventures in CyberSound: A History of Motion Pictures
		His film Weekend (1968) is a bitter study of modern life, in which the victims of an automobile accident wander the highways, discussing the nature of their lives with literary and cinematic figures who appear mysteriously to connect the past, present, and future.
		Film festivals began to be held throughout the world, displaying the work of directors whose films had never been shown outside their own countries before the 1950s.
		Experiments with color films began as early as 1906, and color was occasionally used in subsequent motion pictures as a novelty, but most of the processes that were developed, including early two-color Technicolor, were disappointing and failed to generate enthusiasm on the part of the public.
	www.acmi.net.au /AIC/ENC_CINEMA.html (8885 words)

	Human Nature : description du film, horaire et critiques Films - CinemaQuebec.com
		Sure makes fun of humans and what our nature is. I didn't like the ending either but it fits with the film, so that's the way you got to take it.
		The end is perfect to me, it resumes exactly the film concept: Human Nature and not Human Romance or Deep Values as people would expect...
		The film started in a sortof stylish way but faded after that into some casual filming (camera angles and artistic direction) I think if the same scenario was done in Europe even by Gondry himself, we would have seen another Delicatessen style of films with a solid scenario and a great visual rendering.
	www.cinemaclock.ca /aw/crva.aw/p.cq/r.que/m.All/j.f/i.2972/s.0/f.Human_Nature.html (849 words)

	Amazon.com: Human Nature (2001): DVD
		Certainly "Human Nature" is the least of the films that I have mentioned here, but it is still indicative of the creative quirkiness that has made Kaufman's reputation.
		I admit "Human Nature" may not draw a lot of critical or commercial attention; it is a shame, though, because it is a very clever film, and even if it is not totally coherent or logical, it at least gives us fresh and powerful talent upcoming in this industry.
		This film begins with the revelation that Nathan Bronfman (Tim Robbins) is dead, courtesy of a small round bullet hole in his forehead, and somewhere in the afterlife in a room where everything is white.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000714E6?v=glance (2870 words)

	FILM REVIEWHH: Human Nature -- Beastly Notions Of Civilization
		Human Nature relies so heavily on its outrageous screenplay that everything else is more or less irrelevant so long as the lines are read straight up.
		With a body rendered abnormally hairy by an hormonal disorder, she takes refuge from the cruel stares of her fellow humans in the solitude of wild living.
		Lila (Patricia Arquette), a “nature writer,” gets closer to her subject by living for weeks in a tent in the forest.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V122/N22/human_nature.22a.html (650 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment "Human Nature"
		"Human Nature" is the funniest movie I've seen so far this year (which is saying almost nothing), but it has an air of pale, forced outrageousness about it that suggests it may be legitimate to question Kaufman's staying power.
		The problem with "Human Nature" is that it tries to be both and ends up somewhere in the lumpy in between.
		Toward the end of "Human Nature," Nathan Bronfman, the obsessive scientist played by Tim Robbins, tracks down Puff and Lila (Rhys Ifans and Patricia Arquette), a couple he knows who have escaped to the woods to live naked like wild animals.
	www.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2002/04/12/human_nature (1244 words)

	Movie Publicity
		Human Nature examines issues of evolution, the human desire to blend in and what it really is that makes us human.
		Human Nature will be available to rent and for sale on DVD for $26.98 on December 10.
		A philosophical spoof, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover raised in the wild.
	www.moviepublicity.com /he/human_press.html (501 words)

	cinema nolita nyc
		Human Nature is a comical examination of the trappings of desire in a world where both nature and culture are idealized.
		A philosophical burlesque, Human Nature follows the ups and downs of an obsessive scientist, a female naturalist, and the man they discover, born and raised in the wild.
		Of mice and monkeys: the brilliant, depthless nonsense of Human Nature.
	www.cinemanolita.com /cinemaNolitaNew/filmNew.php?id=1621 (153 words)

	Human Nature (2001)
		The film wants to ask the question about sex and the difference between humans and animals and the environment we are all brought up in.
		She's the core of this film and it should remind everyone that she is able to carry a film by herself and that she's a very underrated actress.
		I think the film works because Kaufman makes sure the viewer is not to take this seriously but at the same time the humor is not presented in an over the top way like some cheap attempt at laughs.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0219822 (645 words)

	Human Nature Review (2001)
		But Human Nature didn't have the impact that the previous film or Kaufman's next scripted films had, perhaps because, on the surface, it is even stranger than them and, ultimately, cultivates and ambiguous attitude to the benefits of culture and sophistication.
		One thing that is clear is that lying is an inescapable part of being human; we see this when Nathan begins an affair with his assistant Gabrielle (Miranda Otto), but keeps it secret from Lila when he finds out about her condition.
		His first feature film was 2001's surreal comedy Human Nature, written by Charlie Kaufman.
	thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=521&... (600 words)

	Being Charlie Kaufman Movies Human Nature
		Second article is At the Human Nature Press Junket, an amazingly pointless piece of "journalism" by a stunningly under-prepared Marcy Dermansky, who with a gossip columnist and a college student "interviews" (I use the term loosely) Charlie, Gondry, Arquette, Robbins and Rosie Perez.
		The film as a whole probably hit a lower target than its creators were aiming for, but putting that aside and judging the film on its own merits, I thought it was okay.
		The film as a whole probably hit a lower target than its creators were aiming for, and its not as dense as Charlie's other work.
	www.beingcharliekaufman.com /movies/human-nature.htm (3967 words)

	American Prospect, The: Of mice and monkeys: the brilliant, depthless nonsense of Human Nature. (Film).~(movie review)
		The place to see a film as fluidly daft, as limpidly out-there as this is at the mall, where you can slide from the theater's darkness into a light that shelves upward through golden pleasure domes and plunges down escalators into caves of ice.
		American Prospect, The: Of mice and monkeys: the brilliant, depthless nonsense of Human Nature.
		Of mice and monkeys: the brilliant, depthless nonsense of Human Nature.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_go1661/is_200205/ai_n6907189 (216 words)

	Inches from collision - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Crash is much more than a film about race relations, but also simultaneously explores the broader and more intimate aspects of relationships, love, hate, hope and the complexities of human nature.
		Over a time frame of less than two days, Crash takes you on the collision course of a diverse set of lives, the chain reaction that follows and a touching and tragic exploration of human nature.
		While Dillon and Newton create the potent turning point for the film, Howard convincingly portrays Cameron's personal turning point in his battle for sense of self.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20050610T090000-0500_82068_OBS_INCHES_FROM_COLLISION.asp (522 words)

	channel4.com/film - Human Nature
		Where Human Nature succeeds, however, is in its sketch-like set pieces and its gleeful sending up of repression.
		Director Gondry's background in music videos is apparent in the film's slick style and occasional dips into the surreal.
		Despite a training programme in which he's given electric shocks for responding to sexual imagery, he still switches from blazer-clad gent to dirty ape in the wink of a waitress's eye.
	www.channel4.com /film/reviews/film.jsp?id=104408&page=2 (207 words)

	Plato - Plato On Human Nature
		The model of the human neurocognitive architecture proposed by evolutionary psychologists is based on the presumption that the demands of hunter-gatherer life generated a vast array of cognitive adaptations. Here we present an alternative model.
		His depth of understanding of human nature is evident in all of his artistic endeavors. His personal experiences and international travels continue to have a powerful influence on his work.
		Small collection of uncited quotes on human nature.
	www.platon.org /platoonhumannature (1839 words)

	Human Nature Film Review - Time Out Film
		Human Nature Film Review - Time Out Film
		Famous for his elegantly artificial pop promos, Gondry opts for kitsch absurdism, but the film is never as outrageous, wild or unpredictable as it thinks it is.
		See more cast & crew for this film
	www.timeout.com /film/72396.html (177 words)

	Style Weekly in Richmond, Virginia
		Structured in three Dantean acts, Godard’s film (in French, Spanish and Hebrew with English subtitles) combines documentary and fictional film footage with a contemporary narrative to examine war’s impact on the individual and society.
		Even so, the film is rewarding if you stick with it, regardless of whether you get everything intended to be gotten.
		Godard makes the rest of his picture thick with subtext and references — to books, art and other films — and leaves the whole open to interpretation.
	www.styleweekly.com /article.asp?idarticle=10622 (313 words)

	New Scientist Expert Coverage of Being Human Behaviour Psychology Anthropology
		The development of humans, and possibly the universe, depends on it.
		It is hugely challenging to use a computer to model human creativity.
		Designs on Nature: Science and democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff
	www.newscientist.com /channel/being-human (2003 words)

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