"Independence Day" is a stupid film
I slept at 11pm last night, really tired of a few nights of sleeping when the sun is just going to come up.
Amazing, they say the most important time of a good night sleep is from 10pm to 2am, the rest of the time, you are not really resting and detoxicating your body.
How true.
I woke up at 4pm(automatic), cannot feel any fresher than this. And start to play online game.
Then out of sudden, i remembered something that I always want to write about.
"Independence Day" is a stupid film.
Maybe my mind is crystal clear after the detoxicating sleep, this old idea of mine sprang out of the closet like a new born tiger cub.
Independence day, for those who have not seen in for the Nth times on singapore TV channel 5, is about an alien with more advance technology,invading the earth for its resources. Humans tried to make peace, denied by aliens. So fight till bitter end. Humans won.
Humans won. Big surprise. (I would like to watch a film where the aliens actually kill off all humans)
It's stupid. For several reasons.
First of all, throughout the whole show, aliens are portrayed as BAD, EVIL, UGLY and WILL KILL FOR FOOD.
wait just one second, does all these characteristics sounds familiar to you?
If you are slow, let me help you. the same words can be used to describe HUMANS!
Ok, maybe not the ugly part, since beauty is subjective. but BAD, EVIL AND KILLING FOR FOOD, in the same context in the film, is what we humans do every day.
As I am typing, humans are thinking of ways to marginized the weak to strengthen himself. COuld be fellow huamn beings, or other animals. We DO NOT ask for permission from the animals in the forests if we can take more than what we need from earth's resources.
No, we cut down the trees, we skin the leopard, we build poison gas emitting factories on the other animals' homeland.
Great news I read 2 days back, our oceans, i am talking about the whole earth's ocean, can only supply 50 more years of marine products.
If you put yourself in shoes of the other animals of the planet, HUMANS are the aliens in that film, and the animals are fighting for their independence day, just that they will never win.
So whoever made the film is not thinking straight, before we can prove any alien existance in this world, humans are the bad aliens jeopardizing the lives and resources of other animals. I am sure the animals want to make peace, but humans dont give a shit. After all, we are the lot with more advance technology...to kill.
Thats point one on what the film is stupid
Point two.
In the film, the aliens are seen as locusts, going from a farm to another (in this case one planet to another), eating and destroying the crops, and move on to the next.
Just what is so bad and evil about that?
I bet my last dollar that if one day, we humans can reach a technology level of space travel, we will DO EXACTLY THE SAME! And you know what, the only time we will sit down and "make peace" is when we know we can't win another planet's space fleet. If we find another planet with the most advance beings as cavemans, we will go in and declare ourselves as god and start enjoying the offering and worships from the cavemen.
In fact, it is already happening on earth. Why do you think america is attacking Iraq and have so much troops securing the oil fields? For justice? for a lousy conclusion that there's weapon of mass destruction in iraq? (America is the country with the most nuclear bombs on earth. Ironically, independence day is a american film)
C'mon, use your brain.
If there anything wrong with this? If you subscribe to the theory "Survival of the fittest", there's nothing wrong. we are stronger and therefore we "own" those who are weaker. Just like the lions preys on the weak baby zebras.
Lastly, and the most stupid thing about the film, is an alien fleet so advance that they can come up with something like an energy shield, can have its system broke down by ... computer virus.
You need many assumptions for that to work.
Assumption 1: Alien computer speak the same language as humans computers. C++? Java? Windows? What do you take aliens who can space travel for?
Assumption 2: An alien race that advance do not have anti virus or similar software protection programme.
Assumption 3: Aliens can control their small spacc craft and guide it to the main computer, but it cannot stop that small space craft from uploading the virus.
hahaha.
HOwever, I cant deny that the film is entertaining and it does gives more unenlightened people sure fire ways to make them "feel good"
1) Nice visual effects
2) Common enemy for the humans/viewer
3) Humans are the ones kicking ass in the film, so the humans watching it will feel emnpowered
Well, remember, next time you watch this film. Think of yourself as a chimpanze who has been moving furthur and furthur into the forest to stay...because the forest you are staying is getting smaller and smaller due to deforestation. And the rain water you drink in the forest is sour, and once in a while you see humans (or aliens) coming to the forests to hunt for the sake of hunting...in other words, killing for fun.
What a lousy film.
Amazing, they say the most important time of a good night sleep is from 10pm to 2am, the rest of the time, you are not really resting and detoxicating your body.
How true.
I woke up at 4pm(automatic), cannot feel any fresher than this. And start to play online game.
Then out of sudden, i remembered something that I always want to write about.
"Independence Day" is a stupid film.
Maybe my mind is crystal clear after the detoxicating sleep, this old idea of mine sprang out of the closet like a new born tiger cub.
Independence day, for those who have not seen in for the Nth times on singapore TV channel 5, is about an alien with more advance technology,invading the earth for its resources. Humans tried to make peace, denied by aliens. So fight till bitter end. Humans won.
Humans won. Big surprise. (I would like to watch a film where the aliens actually kill off all humans)
It's stupid. For several reasons.
First of all, throughout the whole show, aliens are portrayed as BAD, EVIL, UGLY and WILL KILL FOR FOOD.
wait just one second, does all these characteristics sounds familiar to you?
If you are slow, let me help you. the same words can be used to describe HUMANS!
Ok, maybe not the ugly part, since beauty is subjective. but BAD, EVIL AND KILLING FOR FOOD, in the same context in the film, is what we humans do every day.
As I am typing, humans are thinking of ways to marginized the weak to strengthen himself. COuld be fellow huamn beings, or other animals. We DO NOT ask for permission from the animals in the forests if we can take more than what we need from earth's resources.
No, we cut down the trees, we skin the leopard, we build poison gas emitting factories on the other animals' homeland.
Great news I read 2 days back, our oceans, i am talking about the whole earth's ocean, can only supply 50 more years of marine products.
If you put yourself in shoes of the other animals of the planet, HUMANS are the aliens in that film, and the animals are fighting for their independence day, just that they will never win.
So whoever made the film is not thinking straight, before we can prove any alien existance in this world, humans are the bad aliens jeopardizing the lives and resources of other animals. I am sure the animals want to make peace, but humans dont give a shit. After all, we are the lot with more advance technology...to kill.
Thats point one on what the film is stupid
Point two.
In the film, the aliens are seen as locusts, going from a farm to another (in this case one planet to another), eating and destroying the crops, and move on to the next.
Just what is so bad and evil about that?
I bet my last dollar that if one day, we humans can reach a technology level of space travel, we will DO EXACTLY THE SAME! And you know what, the only time we will sit down and "make peace" is when we know we can't win another planet's space fleet. If we find another planet with the most advance beings as cavemans, we will go in and declare ourselves as god and start enjoying the offering and worships from the cavemen.
In fact, it is already happening on earth. Why do you think america is attacking Iraq and have so much troops securing the oil fields? For justice? for a lousy conclusion that there's weapon of mass destruction in iraq? (America is the country with the most nuclear bombs on earth. Ironically, independence day is a american film)
C'mon, use your brain.
If there anything wrong with this? If you subscribe to the theory "Survival of the fittest", there's nothing wrong. we are stronger and therefore we "own" those who are weaker. Just like the lions preys on the weak baby zebras.
Lastly, and the most stupid thing about the film, is an alien fleet so advance that they can come up with something like an energy shield, can have its system broke down by ... computer virus.
You need many assumptions for that to work.
Assumption 1: Alien computer speak the same language as humans computers. C++? Java? Windows? What do you take aliens who can space travel for?
Assumption 2: An alien race that advance do not have anti virus or similar software protection programme.
Assumption 3: Aliens can control their small spacc craft and guide it to the main computer, but it cannot stop that small space craft from uploading the virus.
hahaha.
HOwever, I cant deny that the film is entertaining and it does gives more unenlightened people sure fire ways to make them "feel good"
1) Nice visual effects
2) Common enemy for the humans/viewer
3) Humans are the ones kicking ass in the film, so the humans watching it will feel emnpowered
Well, remember, next time you watch this film. Think of yourself as a chimpanze who has been moving furthur and furthur into the forest to stay...because the forest you are staying is getting smaller and smaller due to deforestation. And the rain water you drink in the forest is sour, and once in a while you see humans (or aliens) coming to the forests to hunt for the sake of hunting...in other words, killing for fun.
What a lousy film.
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