Showing posts with label hollywood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hollywood. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 May 2010

Size matters

This morning i sat and watched a movie with my daughter, the movie ‘A Bugs Life’ is about the battle between ants and grasshoppers.

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As the movie unfolds the hero, a little geeky ant travels to the bug city, the city is a vast metropolis built from old packaging and cans. the streets are filled with all sorts of bugs, the movie even shows roads where the bigger bugs ferry about the smaller ones like busses and taxi’s. The traffic lights are made from twinkling Christmas decorations and bubs.

The whole city is under a single caravan in the middle of a corn field no more than a few meters away from the ants home, but to the ants, its a vast adventure away.

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Later in the movie the bugs hide from a bird in the vast canyons of a dried out river bed. To the bugs however the riverbed was truly a deep network of caverns like the grand canyon.

Although it is only a children's film the idea of a whole world and a whole society that exists within our own without us knowing about it is a strange one.

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The idea captivated me for the duration of the movie. The same idea can be applied to real life too, when philosophers and free thinkers like David Icke and Neil Kramer speak about the hidden world and the veil that separates us movies like this at least for me really hammer home the concept.

there are many great video’s on youtube that hammer home the point that we are small. in the grand scheme of things we are tiny, less than one of those ants in the movie.

if you think about how vast the cosmos is and how we are all clinging to this ball of mud that is hanging in the vast openness of space we are nothing. So when some one says that something is impossible or that we know everything about reality i am forced to remember that little ball of mud spinning about in the dark and i can it ‘fixes’ my perspective.

and this blog was formed while watching a kids movie. maybe there is more going on here.

Sunday, 21 March 2010

Sherlock Holmes, agent of propaganda.


Recently I saw the Guy Ritchie directed rendition of Sherlock Holmes. Before I go on I should say that I get yes, there will be some spoilers in here some where.


The movie's plot is in brief the story of a secret society within the government, and a rogue member who wants world domination. - that was the very short version.

I of the things that bother me with the story is that when Holmes is told that there is a secret society that is at work to steer mankind's destiny and is inside every major portion of the government he does not respond with anger or surprise, he is in fact quite calm about the hole thing and takes the task of tracking and stopping the rogue member.

Is it just me or is Holmes a little miss-guided I think maybe he was supposed to be outraged and try to expose them.

Then later in the story we see our loved detective actually perform a black magic ritual, he then has a vision that leads him to solve the while case. There is also a constant stream of symbolism in the story that even though does fit the plot it's there, its blatant and it is not kept secret from the characters in the story.


I am worried about this masonic/secret society propaganda and how even the main paragon like hero of the story does not flinch at its existence, its not okay to use secret society's to influence world politics. Do you really think that this is what Arthur Conan Doyle had in mind when he wrote the original work?

Give it a watch and then give it some thought, you may, like me decide that its a little creepy.