Is Meryl Streep a Soap Opera Character?

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I disagree with that. I think they are complex characters, but they're not acting as real people in a way. They're expressing something complex about human beings in a way that isn't naturalistic. Meryl Streep, I can't picture her playing absurdity. And David Lynch teeters on absurdity in the Good Way and the Kafka escape absurdity way.

Memory is highly selective and often inaccurate. But what if we had an easily searchable video record of all our experiences and interactions? How would that affect our relationships? What would it reveal about our characters and our sense of who we are? Is there a kind of truth that can’t be determined by perfect objectivity? David and Tamler dive deep into Ted Chiang’s amazingly rich and poignant short story “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling” which explores how new technologies shape individual and group identities.

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