Words lose their meaning when you repeat them.

Have you tried repeating a word to yourself countless times and in the end, found that word incomprehensible, like it does not mean anything? I have tried it several times especially when I was a child. I found it interesting and funny when a common word seemed foreign to me everytime I do it.

Anyway, I haven't done it again for a long time, not until when I watched the virus/zombie movie Pontypool. I came across that movie while browsing reviews and top horror movies of different people on the net. I hesitated to get a copy of it since the title seemed uninteresting, but I remember that it was on the Top 1 of some movie reviewer that I found. And since, I was running out of movies to watch, I decided to get a copy of it anyway.

Pontypool is directed by Bruce Mcdonald, and is based on Tony Burgess' novel of the same title. The story focused on a local radio station reporting the violence caused by town's people infected by a certain virus. At first, the radio station's crew was just reporting the incident and its progress to the listeners and soon, they tried to find a way to stop the virus from spreading through the use of live broadcast. The idea of this movie is unique, compared to other zombie movies out there. It gives a view on the experiences of the radio station people, which are believed to be responsible of spreading what is happening. I believe that people who want to see a lot of blood and violence in virus/zombie movies may not appreciate this movie because it shows a lot of conversation and pure broadcasting on radio.

I was fascinated by this movie because they used the phenomena of what I am talking about earlier - semantic satiation. Normally, when we repeat a word countless times, our brain experiences mental fatigue, thus the word loses its meaning; but in this movie, once you are infected with the virus, you can still understand the word even when you keep repeating it. It was also then that I tried to search for the term for this phenomena, such as semantic satiation.

The climax of the film is when Grant Mazzy convinced Sydney Briar that Kill is kiss. After certain repetition, she was convinced. 

Well, I think it is good when you see a movie that makes you think and remember something you have forgotten for awhile.