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Learning
Difficulties Minor 
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TITLE |
Lawnmower Man, The (1992) |
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DISABILITY |
Learning
Difficulty |
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NOTES |
More bad
science and scientists. A gardener with learning |
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difficulties
becomes a subject for experiment which will |
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Not
recommended for those who have a high I.Q.. |
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Fahey just
isn't up to giving any kind of credibility to this part. |
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The film
repeats the fallacy that you can learn a 'trade' by |
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reading
books. In Fahey's case it's score of CD-Roms which |
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he absorbs.
A step further than Travolta's "Phenonemon" |
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(1996) who
flicks through medical books . |
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There was
the idea years ago that if you played cassettes of |
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fiction,
science etc. next to the pillow of someone asleep they |
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might learn
more. That seems to have slipped away. But |
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films just
love this super-heated learning. Learning is active |
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From a short
story by Stephen King. |
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Notes
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