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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cloud Atlas,
an interesting philosophical film to watch. All in all,
it’s an excellent movie, though it probably will confuse some Americans. It’s more
of a European flick, to be precise-a German flick with all of its artistic cinematography, philosophy, and x-rated sex in a rated-R movie. Having watched many
German films, myself, I suspected that a German scriptwriter had his hands
on this project, perhaps even a European, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>so I looked up those involved in the project and who should be one of the co-writers and directors of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cloud Atlas</i> other than the one and only Tom Tykwer? In case you
don’t know who Tom Tykwer is, he’s the script writer and director of one of
Germany’s most famous movies, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Run, Lola, Run. </i>Yes, he definitely has
his finger prints all over this film with its episodic, angst ridden, fast beat
scenes which have many twists and turns. And of course, as I mentioned before, the
philosophy. Germans are the thinkers in the artistic world, and their art
usually revolves around a dystopian, Franz Kafkaesque bizarre world…much like
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But I would
be remiss not to mention the influence of the Wachowski siblings in this film,
and it’s very present as well. They are responsible for films such as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Matrix</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">trilogy</i> with its futuristic setting in a dystopian world, as well. However, they’re more futuristic than Tykwer who likes to write about modern
society and casts Ben Whishaw in all his movies (he is also in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cloud Atlas</i>). The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Matrix trilogy</i>’s theme of being a suppressed prisoner in a system created
by someone else, and empowering yourself to breach that system through self-empowerment and unity is also present in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Cloud
Atlas</i>, as I’ll explain in another blog. </span></div>
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we are taken through the lives of more than 70 characters who continue to
reincarnate but remain in each other’s lives in one form or another in six different plots for 500
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, Tom Hanks plays the
characters<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dr. Henry Goose, the hotel
Manager, Isaac Sachs, Dermot Hoggins, Cavendish Look-a-Like Actor, and Zachry
who is in love with or whose life intersects with<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Halle Berry’s
characters Native Woman, Jocasta Ayrs, Luis Rey, Indian Party Guest, Ovid, and
Meronym. Obviously, this is an actor’s film because it’s character driven and
challenges the actors’ versatility. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a
person who dabbled in acting when I was young, I believe it’s one hell of task
to play multiple characters at the same time; it almost takes a photographic
memory to keep each character separated. But they do, and the actors do an
excellent job of it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Of course they do, you have the skills of likes of Hugh Grant, Jim Broadbent and other A-listers to support the film and bring dimension to the characters. </span></span></div>
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the fact that it ruminates for a brief moment over the vignettes at the
beginning of the film, I feel, was a downfall for a commercial film catering to
an American audience which doesn’t watch, nor appreciate, many artistic films. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the other hand, I believe it was part of the
movies’ artistry-feeding into its theme of oneness, as it is clear that these characters
share versions of the same problems at the same time though they live in
different periods of time, with different socio-economic backgrounds, different
physical traits, different races, genders, ages, sexual orientations etc. But moving
quickly from character to character in the beginning, was perhaps the screenwriter’s
way of showing that they are one and the same character –you have the rebel
who empowers the exploited heroine, the heroine that is exploited, and the villain
who is doing the exploiting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn’t
matter who each character is, really. But at first you’re confused and have no idea
what the story is about until it starts to connect later on in the movie.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To sum it up, the hook is lousy, though
artistic, and the storyline and its themes were superb. Which is probably why
it won many awards in Germany. Will it win awards in the United States?
Probably not, but that’s because it’s polarizing here in the United States-some
people love its themes and vignettes which take tangents but ultimately jell to form a few cohesive storylines and then there are those who believe that the development is messy and incohesive. You do have to have your thinking cap on when you watch this
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movie you have to see for yourself if you want to know more about the storyline. If I were to sum it up, it would take a lot more than a few pages to untangle
this intricate storyline in a coherent, interesting manner. Instead, I will
focus on quotes in vignettes in relation to a few important philosophical
themes I saw in the movie. And hopefully it will help the American, and even
Canadian, movie watcher have a deeper understanding <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and appreciation for this bold film. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">But that's another blog. </span></span></div>
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Brad Pitt, zombies, action…great, campy combination. It all starts out in Philadelphia
traffic, which is devastating enough, during a period of martial law, which
isn’t devastating all...in this film. It’s devastating in the truther conspiracy
world where martial law brings about a police state, strict curfew, unlimited
surveillance, and Fema camps. But it’s all hunky dory in this film, daddy makes
his kids breakfast in your perfect suburban home. It’s what happens when he
sees a man pounding on someone’s car window then attacks the driver inside, that is
devastating. No, he doesn’t have an extreme form of road rage, he has turned
into a zombie, and turns anyone be bites into a zombie…kind of like a vampire,
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protagonist, Gerry Lane, finds himself running away from an entire city which
has turned into a swamp of zombies because this is the apocalypse and <i>we </i>are<i> </i>the aliens. <i>We</i> are
destroying ourselves, not a group of little grey or large green men from another dimension. We are the enemy. I like the fact that this movie sources from different
conspiracies. In this case a virus created in a laboratory to inevitably affect
the global population in a lethal manner, as I’ll discuss later. It’s only convenient,
I suppose, that he works for the U.N., so he, his family, and a token child
whose parents turned into zombies, are able to escape the city and remain uninfected
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Pitt sets up his wife, and now three children, in an aircraft
carrier out in the middle of the ocean somewhere, he goes on a mission to find the original
host of the zombie virus in the hopes of
finding a cure, and saving the world from the zombie apocalypse. He ends up in Israel, the only
safe haven on planet earth, other than the ocean, that has found a way to keep
out the zombies- build a super tall wall that they can’t climb over. However,
even Israel can’t withstand the onslaught of zombies and soon succumbs to their
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is fleeing the swarm of zombies running after him like a group of horny fans, he briefly looks over his shoulder, and observes a Buddhist monk
who is surrounded by zombies, but isn’t infected with the virus. They’re also
not attacking him. This is Gerry Lane’s big “Ah ha!” moment, because he realizes
that these picky eaters don’t attack people who are already sick, no. And he
surmises that the zombies won’t attack him if he is injected with a particular
virus. Where did I see that scenario before? Oh yeah, Pacific Rim, when the scientist
formed a neural bridged with a Kaiju brain which makes him invisible to the
Kaiju. But it could also be inspired by the current cancer breakthrough which uses the HIV virus to kill cancer cells. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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should happen on the plane but a sudden outbreak of the zombie virus? You know
that baby’s going down! </span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">He clearly can
seem to get a break, but he also has unusually good luck because both he
and Segen are still alive when the plane crashes, and the plane lands
near the pharmaceutical company that manufactured the zombie virus. Rather convenient. However, Segen has to get him to the pharmaceutical company right away because part of the
airplane’s seat has punctured through his side. Does he quit his quest to save mankind and die somewhere? No. He’s singularly
determined to save mankind, as well as himself, so he agonizingly makes his way to the
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survives. When he gets there, the pharmaceutical company extracts the metal from
his hip and he heals in no time. Now he has the opportunity to inject himself
with a disease, but there is just one problem -the laboratory, which holds the
specific injection that he’s looking for, is filled with doctors who became
zombies. So now he has to navigate the
pass them to get to the room with the injection. Which he does successfully, of
course, and injects himself with the virus while a zombie, who is chomping his teeth at
him, looks on from outside the room. Which is the comical part of the movie, like the comic foil, if
you will. You can tell it’s an actor having fun playing the role, but that’s ok, because the movie’s too serious anyway and the
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the negative expectations concerning this film…the constant rewriting of
scripts, the growing budget, and the expectation that it wouldn’t come out at
all, this film was really good. I felt that the script was well
written. In fact, its storyline is a complete departure from the
novel, but that’s also ok, because it’s interesting. People who have read the
book, though, are disappointed with the film because, they say, <i>World War Z </i>only<i> </i>uses the title of the book and the scriptwriters took far too many
liberties with the storyline. Perhaps the problem lies with having five
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characters, I really didn’t feel connected to any of them, except for Gerry
Lane, who monopolizes the movie. There was so much action and such little
drama, you really couldn’t connect with any of the characters…except Gerry Lane.
What about the Mexican family? Nope, they become zombies within a few minutes. What
about his family? Usually one family member accompanies the protagonists
throughout the movie, but not this time. What about Segen? No, she almost says
nothing at all. What about the pharmacists? There are far too many of them and
you only see them for a few brief minutes. No, this is clearly a Brad Pitt
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I personally
don’t know whether or not I appreciate the fact that the screen writers took liberties
with the zombies, though, and liberties they took. These are not your mama’s
slow moving, fleshing eating zombies. These zombies are quite agile-marathon
runners who bite people and have the mental acuity to form a pyramid with their
bodies so they can breach Israel’s walls. You don’t want to mess with these
zombies!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">All, in all,
the film was very good. It did it have its holes, and probably more than I
mentioned. But that doesn’t take away from the fact the storyline is very
original, which in itself is a breath of fresh air, considering that fact that
theaters are inundated with remakes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The universe through the artists’ eyes. How much do
we know of the universe? Are there government institutions withholding vital
information about an extraterrestrial presence engaging our reality, and if so,
are there whistle blowers leaking this information into the public domain?
Absolutely! And during their quest to write stories, sci-fi script-writers find
these bits of information during their research. Some info is provided directly
from whistle blowers themselves. The trick is, to research the anecdotes in the
movies. How much is truly original? How much is created in the mind of the
script writer? I explore ufological influences as I critique the movies. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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people liked Man of Steel, but it didn’t do too much for me. Admittedly, I
watched it with a migraine which could have affected my opinion at the time,
most definitely. But I suspect that I’m not far from the mark, and here’s why:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the movie never went in depth. Don’t get me wrong, the anecdotes were fabulous,
but they left you dangling. I found that I wanted to know more about life on
Krypton. I wanted to see its culture, its people, its customs that are a stark
contrast or similar to earth’s culture. I wanted to see more conflict/plotting
between General Zod and Jor-El, not just a few moments before planet Krypton
explodes. I wanted to know more about Clark Kent/Kal El/ Superman’s childhood,
his relationship with his parents, and his relationships with other children.
The story doesn’t go in depth about the conflicts in his childhood either,
instead, his conflicts are resolved much too soon, such as his conflicts with the bullies...there
wasn’t enough drama. As for his relationship with Lois Lane, I must admit I’m
also a little biased because I loved the 80s Superman series. In the 80s, Clark
Kent’s relationship with Lois Lane was more developed, you can tell that they
were on their way to a full-fledged romance during the first movie. However, Lois
Lane had more of a relationship with his father in this movie, which is fine,
if it extended to more than a few short minutes. I mean, everything was rather brief. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But even though the storyline is lacking, the film still
has its perks. The most obvious one being the action scenes.It's colossal, it's bold…it
is almost as good as Pacific Rim’s. But it was also a little too much…too
lengthy. While I enjoyed the destruction of the entire town, give me more storyline, please don’t wrap it all up in the action
sequences. Though the special effects were spectacular. And, frankly, so were the futuristic costumes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The message
was fantastic too. You have this alien from Krypton trying to adapt to our
world. It is difficult because his
genetics put him at both an advantage and disadvantage over earthlings. On one
hand, he could pick up a truck as if it were a small toy and save a life. On
the other hand, his sensory frequency is incompatible with earth’s because
everything was more visible and louder to him, as it would be for extraterrestrials
who are trying to adapt to our environment. That is why our villain, General Zod, was
attempting to terraform the earth’s environment in the first place, to make it
easier for the Kryptonian race to live on earth. That means humans had to die,
of course, but that was the least of his worries. Yet, here was this man, Kal
El, who was also Kryptonian, and was attempting to protect humanity from
General Zod’s invasion- even if it meant that he would be the last living
Kryptonian in existence. So, General Zod’s flawed plan for the perpetuating
their species didn’t exactly pan out as he planned. If, say, he found ways for the
Kryptonians to adapt to Earth, they would have survived (Pacific Rim also
conveyed this message in a round about way when the scientist drifted with the
Kaiju. It didn’t notice his human neurological scent, so it left him alone as
if he were a Kaiju). So once again, brains triumphs brawn. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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between Superman/Kal El and General Zod, is that within one branch of the same
species, are two opposing factions…one who wants to hurt humanity, and one who
wants to protect it at all costs. Kind of like, aliens are not <i>all</i> bad, like the aliens in Pacific Rim were.
Well, in the Kaiju genre in general the aliens are <i>all</i> bad. I imagine the same would apply to an extraterrestrial
presence engaging this reality…like the much feared R</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">eptilians. Are they really </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">all</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> bad? Can’t there be a few gems amongst them? And I mean </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Reptilians who represent a benevolent, helpful presence to humanity, rather than a hateful, destructive one. Like Kal-El. I like the
fact that Man of Steel doesn’t paint one group of people with a single broad brush.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So, now that
Superman is the last surviving Kryptonian, the question remains if he
can perpetuate his species. At least in the physical form…as we see in the
scenes with Jor-El, they can also become spirits. But can he reproduce with
Lois Lane, if extraterrestrials have a different genetic makeup than humans? Unless
we have a common ancestor which makes us genetically compatible, the answer is
no. According to Wikipedia, Kryptonians
have a completely different genetic makeup than humans which makes it
impossible for them to breed with us. So, even if Kal-El looks exactly like a
human man, he can’t reproduce with Lois Lane. And who knows what he really
looks like under that suit! Underneath all the bulging muscles he could even be
a hermaphrodite. So what about artificial insemination? We see in the movie that
the aliens were created through artificial insemination rather than through
sexual reproduction-except for Kal-El/ Superman/ Clark Kent whose parents broke
the law to have him naturally. But does that somehow make him different than
your average Kryptonian? Since he is
genetically incompatible with Lois Lane, or any human on planet earth for that matter, that
means artificial insemination is out of the question. But is his species
virtually screwed? Is he truly the last member of the Kryptonian race? What
about cloning? Well, science isn’t that advanced yet, we’re not supposed to be
able to clone humans let alone Kryptonians, but who knows what really
happens in research facilities these
days. Perhaps they could clone him, but according to Wikipedia, his genetic
structure is too complex for scientists to decipher let alone clone. So, sorry Superman, now that your species is
dead, there probably won’t be another Kryptonian anytime soon. That is, unless love produces the kind of
chemicals that could facilitate sexual reproduction with Lois Lane.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">this</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> is
a good movie, this is what it looks like. In my opinion, it stands out as this Summer’s best sci-fi, as
I’ll discuss later on. I mentioned in my blog </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">The Dragon’s Triangle</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">, that there is a large, ominous body of water off
the coast of Japan. Coincidentally, it is located within the Pacific ring of
fire. Many IFOs and marine vessels simply disappeared into that watery grave, or
supposed watery grave, because no one knows what happened to the casualties
after they’ve disappeared. Could they be alive? Could they be dead? Could they have
been a meal for sea faring ultraterrestrial monsters </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">known as the Kaiju?</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the Pacific Rim movie,
absolutely.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">Though these titans, who
have a symbiotic relationship with machinery, are by all accounts biological robots
for real extraterrestrials hiding in another dimension on the sea floor. Their
purpose as slaves? To wipe out the human population so the real extraterrestrials
can colonize our planet, consume its resources, and then invade another planet
once they’ve destroyed ours. It’s a tradition for them, both in the movie, and
in some UFOlogical mythology.</span><br />
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for these alien beings, but I believe its title says it all. Furthermore, in the movie there’s an underwater
portal in the Pacific Ocean that leads to an extra-dimensional city in its
ocean floor. There is a whirlpool in the Dragon’s Triangle that many have
speculated serves as an entrance to an underground extraterrestrial world as well. So,
to sum it up, the portal in the movie and the whirlpool in Dragon’s Triangle
are located in the same region of the world and serve the same purpose, so it’s
safe to assume that they’re the same thing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seemingly out of the blue, the Kaiju cyborgs rise
out of this marine portal and slaughter humans. Supersonic planes, state-of-art
tanks, nuclear submarines, anything and everything are used against these
titans to no avail. So, in a last ditch attempt to save the human population
from a burgeoning invasion, world governments work together to build an army of
gigantic robots called Jaegers, which are comparable in size and strength to
the Kaiju. These Jaegers are basically giant, hulking transformers that don’t transform
into anything at all, but have their own unique abilities. They are piloted by
two pilots who join their minds, or consciousness, together with a neural
bridge process called drifting. Pilots can
then share each other’s thoughts, emotions, memories (you have to be <i>real compatible</i> to drift), and control
one of the Jaeger’s arms. In other words,
they become symbiotic with each other and the machinery-becoming virtual cyborgs
like the Kaiju. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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brother for years until a Kaiju killed him. Then he became a washed-up pilot working as a carpenter while trying his best to leave the Jaeger world behind him.
But these cyborgs are constantly being upgraded, making them increasingly
dangerous and unable to defeat. So his old boss, Stacker Pentecost, has no other recourse than to recruit Becket once again, and pair him with his old Jaeger and, eventually, his
adopted daughter –the beautiful, ambitious, talented rookie, Mako Mori. Of course you have to have that beautiful woman who the protagonist falls in love with. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Becket and his old Jaeger are antiques in the squadron, proves to be a blessing
in disguise. The Kaiju have found a way
to shut down the newer, more automated Jaegers, but they can’t shut down Becket’s
old clunker. So, with a raw mixture of physical dexterity and Japanese sword wielding
(which makes the Jaeger look like a robotic samuri…I’m in love with that detail!),
Becket and Mori are able to defeat the Kaiju in the Pacific Ocean and make
their way to the underwater portal. The icing on the cake is the old-fashioned
nuclear bomb in the Jaeger’s chest. None of the newer Jaegers have this
function, so Becket and Mori are the only pilots who have the ability to
destroy the entire colony of extraterrestrials on the ocean floor. In my opinion, this movie is filled with propaganda, which is probably why it was widely panned by industry critics. But that doesn't take away from its awesomeness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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sci-fi bar none? First of all, let me say that Guillermo Del Toro’s ode to Ray Harryhausen's <i>The Beast from
20,000 Fathoms</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and Ishiro Honda's <i>Godzilla</i>, is texturally thick…it
borrows from the the Kaiju genre, the mecha anime genre, and UFOlogical genre,
but it doesn’t fall flat like other refurbished movies such
as Superman, Spiderman, and the endless ilk. That’s because its storyline was all around very original
and tight-tighter than the other sci-fi movies this summer such as Man of
Steel, which is too episodic, Oblivion, which has a messy ending, or World War
Z, which isn’t very suspenseful and borders on comical. I’m going to review all those movies later. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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of the term apocalypse, which is actually a very common mistake. It simply means <i>the unveiling</i> of a hidden truth such as an
extraterrestrial presence engaging our reality. So, it already happened in the
beginning of the movie, because the aliens already unveiled themselves to the
human population…yet they were planning for an apocalypse. What they should have been planning for was
armageddon. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Labyrinth</i> director, obviously didn’t do a rushed, marketing job by throwing
in some storylines that would appeal to a target audience’s taste, and it shows.
Del Toro cultivated it like a baby, giving birth to a movie with well developed
characters whose relationships were sufficiently developed, even with minimal
storyline (though some critics complain that the dialogue was cheesy and had too many cliches...it works for this genre, I find). For example, you learn just how much Pentecost and Mori mean to each
other while she is drifting for the first time. She’s an orphaned little girl, she is
frightened to death because the Kaiju are attacking her city and destroying
everything in their path, and Pentecost manages to save her. As he emerges from
his Jaeger like an angel, he becomes Mori’s savoir and the father figure she
idolizes. The dynamics of their relationship is set as the movie moves forward
not to mention they appeal to your emotions. You want these characters to
survive and excel. Man of Steel, for example, didn’t bring us that type of
attachment, or if it did, it was sedate as to render it unmoving. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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however, is not so clear from the onset. Mori doesn’t like him at first because
he’s a washed up pilot joining a younger generation of fresh, new talent. So she
dismisses him as too old and subpar for the job, though she, herself, is just a
rookie. When Becket playfully challenges her to a duel, she learns that she
underestimated his martial arts skills and that she’s not all that special after
all. She also finds out that they are
compatible for drifting. Yes, you guessed it, drifting compatibility is also
symbolic for romantic compatibility. You
can tell there’s some romantic tension between them in the movie, but they
never connect romantically till the end, because they're focused on their
mission to save the world. That’s another thing drifting is symbolic of….the
importance of working together to achieve a goal...the war would not have succeeded if they didn't work together and getting involved romantically always messes things up. Plus, let’s face it, who would
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like it...with less syrup and more substance (for the most part-Stephenie Meyer created a true romantic legacy). <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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during times of war…one concept with so many symbolic meanings which is brilliant,
actually. That concept was expressed when the crazy scientist, Dr. Newton
Geiszler, drifted with the brain of a Kaiju. But this is more than about
thinking like the enemy to defeat the enemy. This is about understanding your
enemy’s motives, emotions, point of view, and perceptions of reality (something we should have done before we invaded Iraq, for example). Putting
yourself in your enemies' shoes, so to speak. The only problem is that once his neural
bridge connected with the Kaiju, another Kaiju comes searching for him in the
city, bringing with it a new round of destruction. But it ultimately
doesn’t notice him, because he has the neurological scent of a Kaiju. So by adapting to the Kaiju, he was able to survive. He also learns while drifting with the Kaiju brain, that the aliens are planning a full
scale invasion, and how the pilots can successfully defeat them. No amount of macho
ego-tripping could muscle their way to victory against the Kaiju. Defeating the Kaiju took brains as well as brawn.<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The visual elements were bold, beautiful, sophisticated, and very realistic.
From the giant transformers to the Kaiju baby, everything was elegant and very
detailed. Frankly, he also managed to do something that is unique to the 80s
movies- he managed to prolong the suspense so there was no quick resolution; you
were on the edge of your seat till the very end, as you should be. Being an 80s
child, I appreciate that aspect of the movie very much. It was something that
was notably lacking in the 90s movies and certainly didn’t improve until this
movie…in 2013. Other movies left the suspense feeling rather stale and not
worth watching because your hopes for the characters were appeased almost immediately…everything
was resolved too soon, perhaps in order to cater to a generation or two with
short attention spans. But everyone likes suspense, which is why most people
who are in their 30s and 40s turn to trashistic reality television shows. All in all, Del Toro earns major kudos for this film. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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