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| Friday, July 29, 2005 |
| no man is an island? |
i think The Island was great...lots of good action and i had a difficult time determining when the movie would end. not that i wanted it to. But i think Michael Bay needs a new bag of tricks. what has worked for him well in the past was just utilized all throughout this film without anything ground-breaking. I constantly refer to Bad Boys which started my admiration for the man and his talent. But what makes this movie so exciting are the characters, the script, the special effects but not so much the directing.
Now that i think about it, it was based on the Kazuo Ishiguro book - Never Let Me Go.
In that light, i would think the movie is a good adaptation...loosely. but still gives the same moral premise of what is it that makes us human.
Can we really survive in a world with "proximity warnings"? if they were really becoming human in that world, do you think any of us would have started going crazy within the first month? i get constant advice requests from friends as to how i've survived being alone for a while. I'm proud to say I think i've always been alone. Who else can you completely depend on but yourself in this life? friends and family are a great remedy for seclusion but you really go to bed at the end of the day with yourself. So why shun from the thought of being unaccompanied? alone isn't lonely.
So my response is always, be comfortable with yourself. there was someone who once said "i feel like i've been good to myself lately so I decided to take "Me" out on a date"...and so he spent the afternoon catching a good movie, having a cuppa joe and just walking around Greenbelt. Nice date huh? i do that a lot also. and in a society that seems to be averse to accepting individuality, i'm going to keep doing that. |
posted by maldita @ 1:39 AM
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