I’m not sure what it is about the cinema that originally attracted me to it. Perhaps it was the awe of the big screen, the power to make a hundred strangers sit in a dark room and laugh or cry together. Perhaps it was some films ability to make me laugh whil

I remember the first time I ever say the Kiefer Sutherland movie “Flatliners”. I was at my father’s house (because my mom would never let me see a film that was rated “R”) and we were all gathered around the television, intently watching this dark, mysterious film about several college students pushing the envelope of science and psychology. I must have been only nine years old at the time, but to see the things that those students did in the movie, and the repercussions that their tampering with nature brought upon them, allowed me to see the darker side of the human existence. “Flatliners” showed me a world that I never knew existed, a world of experimental thinkers, and brave explorers, and the downfall that an “innovator” can have. That film changed my way of thinking at only nine, from then on, there was no stopping Lorenzo Perkins from watching every movie he could get his hands on, and learning everything he could from it.

Another film that has had great impact on my life, whether it be viewed as good or bad, I leave for the reader to decide, is the Kubrickian classic “A Clockwork Orange”. This dark comedy/satire//psychological science fiction film which ranks on the American Film Institutes top 100 list, with a ranking of 26, shed light into an always dark corridor of my life. Diagnosed as a Manic-Depressive with mild Psychosis, I was force fed pills to make me “better”. After seeing this film, and the Ludovico behavior modification tech

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