Thursday, May 21, 2009

Planet of the Apes

This was wierd, I had thought that all people would have seen the Planet of the Apes. The movie was great to see again. The secular humanist views were much more prominant this time around after doing all the studies I have this year. Are we doomed to dreadful destruction? Will we blow ourselves up? perhaps, but if we do, we won't turn into a lot of monkeys. Now that the class has seen this movie they will be able to understand many quips and allusions in television shows. This is the primary reason to see the classic. To know the humor of the present.

Sunday, May 17, 2009

Stranger Than Fiction

The scene that I realized this time I saw it was the fibonacci sequence screen change. As he eats his lunch the screen turns into two side by side frames, then a third that is a square as wide as the two but together, then another continually making larger rectangles. The significance here is that the fibonacci sequence is the Greek phi calculation of perfection. Also an explanation of the biking child and the mysterious woman. When one tries to write, whether song, story or movie. As a part comes together, small inspirations come and you think, I want a child to be the cause, this child should ride a bike, it should be on the road, nay the sidewalk, no road is good, there should also be another lady involved, a government worker, a bus driver, he will be hit by a bus and so on. They are not so much a motif as a sign of the author's mutating ideas about his death.