When we come to know that Ash (is that the character?) is an android, then the essence of the film is revealed. It is a robot that doesn't respect the three famous laws (remember Asimov's _I, Robot_) and that has been programmed to get a unique objective: get hold of that strange creature which has been found in a distant planet. In order to do so, it is allowed to kill all the crew, who is declared expendable. But... what is that which is so important? It is, no more no less, what the robot considers to be the most perfect creature in the universe (and which to the rest of the viewers is just a vicious destroyer). The robot has been created by some kind of Nazi, obsessed with purity of race, with organism perfection. And that is what the creature stands for: perfection, a sort of Super-Man (a-la-nietzsche). But it comes under a monstrous, disgusting appearance, reflection of what it really is about to bring. In that sense, to me, Alien represents the dangers of looking for perfection. That quest implies fights among people, dilemmas, having to toy with life and death, paranoia... Had it not been for the robot's orders to get samples of that perfect creature (commands dictated by some humans on Earth who we never come to know), nothing would have happened and Nostromo would have come back to Earth.
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What was going on in his head?
19 August 2005
I am a real McCartney lover. However, I don't dig this movie at all. What was he thinking about when he "wrote" the "script"? How could George Martin have been able to accept such poor new versions of gems like "For No One" or "Here, There And Everywhere"? No wonder Ringo Starr didn't want to get involved in The Beatles new covers. The music in the film is the less McCartney-like ever... The arrangements are sugary, the voice... oh! please... compare it to the voice in Rockshow or Wings Over America, or, why not?, the voice he exhibits in his most recent tours (2000 on). Fortunately, he didn't make a second part of the movie, as his wish had been for a while. There are, however, some good bits (or let's say not so mediocre bits). For example, when the band (Ringo Starr included, and other excellent musicians such as Dave Edmunds), performs the not very good compositions "No values", and some others. Didn't anybody had the guts to tell him that, with such an incredible band he was performing with, he should have chosen a better repertoire? All in all, a regrettable movie, full of possibilities (excellent musicians, for instance), with a horrible script (Paul will always be famous for showing off that he can do anything, even things he doesn't know how to... as writing scripts). Fortunately, we will always have his other records. Don't forget that Paul McCartney is a musician, not an actor. His workshop is the recording studio and the stage, doing the best thing he can do: performing music.
In America
(2002)
Fairy Tale
9 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
It's a wonderful movie, full of magic and wonder. To begin with, the fact that the main point of view is that of a little girl ("don't little girl me!", I can hear her!), must be kept in mind. Therefore we have to accept some inconsistencies or magical components: how comes that Mateo, a devil-like character, is nearly a saint? But to me the most amazing thing is the way magic and tragedy go hand in hand. It is a film of transformations: Mateo evolves from being a devil figure to an angel; of big questions such as What is love? Do we really know how to love? Are those little girls as innocent as they may seem to be? The movie is a celebration of life through death: the father only learns to live when he accepts that Frankie is dead. It is a celebration of innocence: the father will be happy when he accepts that he can look at the sky and see the spirits of his loved ones. Probably that is connected to the Catholic faith in which the girls are brought up: Jesuschrist believed that everybody had to be like little babies, that is naive, candid... in order to be saved. Probably that's the underlying message: be innocent. P.S.: Being a non-English-speaking person, the word "youse" (they use it as a plural of "you" -does it really exist?) was interesting.
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