The moral of this post is that you can jump over a large chasm to catch the edge of a tall cliff, try your hardest, miss the edge by a fraction, but you still fall just as far and die.
(Yes I posted the moral first.)
This evening Akie and I went to see the movie “Wanted.” Basically, this movie reached hard for that edge, but still fell just as hard. Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 73%, justifying the rating because it is oriented towards a summer audience, wanting nothing more than brainless plots and brains spattered on the walls. I would say that you can’t justify that because the movie ALSO tries to include too many messages. It pushes its themes too hard. What you have got here is a champion of anti-establishment, anti-utilitarianism (or is it pro-utilitarianism?), anti-religion, rebellion against humdrum normality. When the main character breaks the invisible wall of the screen, looks at the audience right after shooting someone’s brains out, and asks the loquacious question, “What the f*** have YOU done today?” You know the director is trying way to hard to broadcast his themes. If he thought this was going to skate through the public unconscious, delivering subliminal messages to minds only expecting a mindless shoot’emup, well, he was exactly right. This movie somehow manages to screw with your sense of ethics, then reverse it, then have you not knowing what the frick you think, and wants you to love the excitement of your own confusion. This movie tries to juggle one too many plates, and drops them all.
On another note, last night Dad took me out to Ramen for dinner, and i had the 450 gram meal. That means not only do you have a bowl of ramen, but a pound more noodles on the side. I was full afterwords. And I have no plans for the weekend. Perhaps being EXTREMELY lazy is in order. Or perhaps, being REALLY motivated and going out and finding something to do.
.
