Enjoyable episode with some good points. Of course, the most disturbing thing for me in the film was the credits rolling -down- the screen instead of up while Bowie’s “Heart’s Filthy Lesson” plays.

From a technical standpoint, your audio’s unbalanced. The movie clips are about half the volume of your live clips. The subtitles help (thank you for them) but it can still be a little jarring to pop back and forth. Also, maybe some more pillows or something. You’re pretty echo-y, especially whenever you raise your voice.

Finally, I see your “watching after eating spaghetti” and raise you “watching with my mother while on vacation”. Of course, I know a guy who saw it on a first date. After he’d seen it once so he knew what he was getting into; his date hadn’t, the poor thing. I have weird friends.

In answer to your inquiry: What Morgan Freeman’s character spouts about libraries is complete and total hogwash. I have worked in the library field for over twenty years. No such mechanism for monitoring  random users from all of the various libraries in this country currently exists. Further, creating one is a virtual impossibility. The best you could do is figure out the percentage of copies of  a particular book was checked out of the nation’s libraries. Tying that information to particular users is another problem. In most libraries to determine who has checked out which books you have to enter a different  database from the circulation module for each library.
Librarians value the privacy of their users. In the wake of 911 there was talk of keeping an eye on who checked out certain books from libraries. The American Library Association told the Feds to pound sand.

 Even if such a system existed it would be fairly useless to the government. It could not distinguish between, lets say a judge or prosecutor checking out “Helter Skelter” for insights into legal procedures for dealing with criminally insane clients and a local yahoo getting his jollies off by imagining that HE is Charles Manson. 

  As to hiding nuclear secrets, several people HAVE built functional nuclear devices (sans the fissionable material)   from government publications. The Feds in every case simply reacted with embarrassment when these wunderkinds announced what they had accomplished. In the excellent book “The Radioactive Boy Scout” one can read about the teenager who built a fully functional breeder reactor in his parents garden shed through a combination of finding enough nuclear materials and free government and library materials; all in an attempt to earn his Eagle Scout Merit badge! If a sixteen year old can build such a device any smart “bad guy” could do the same thing.  It also does nothing to prevent a country like Pakistan, China, India, and any other nuclear weapons possessing nation from sharing THEIR knowledge on how to build these weapons despite what the U.S. and it allies may want.    Sorry to run on. But that aspect of the movie was ludicrous. Somerset is far too intelligent a character to be spouting such nonsense. Clearly if Somerset were a real person he would realize the impossibility of that particular government conspiracy. It also come out of nowhere as nothing else in the movie leads one to believe that Somerset subscribes to the big bad EVIL federal government conspiracies. It really ruined the movie for me. Its like he suddenly said that the crimes were committed by UFO riding aliens. It IS that stupid.