I recently watched ‘Oppenheimer’ – a movie about one man *obsessed* with physics. It’s a lot like ‘The Beautiful Mind’ and ‘Pi’ – the main character is consumed: he daydreams about periodic table over morning coffee, he sees particles in his sleep. It’s dramatic and sexy. That made me wonder: if they made a movie…
One of my favorite childhood cartoons is a Soviet classic about a brave little raccoon. The only thing he was scared of was the Thing in the pool. And THE THING was scary: it would wickedly mug and shamelessly threaten the cute baby raccoon! I hated The Thing myself! I remember running up to TV…