It's just . . . the calm effect of it, and yet you know what's going on behind the words, and that makes it all the more devastating.
I really don't think they could have done the same with human actors. Just in this particular instance of technology, it's the closest we can get to the dead speaking for themselves.
(Though I do want to punch whoever threw that ad in right at the moment when Titanic falls silent. "All's Well That Ends Well -- in Gujarati!" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.)
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I really don't think they could have done the same with human actors. Just in this particular instance of technology, it's the closest we can get to the dead speaking for themselves.
(Though I do want to punch whoever threw that ad in right at the moment when Titanic falls silent. "All's Well That Ends Well -- in Gujarati!" SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUT UP.)
That was not the best-timed advertisement, no.