Monday, September 16, 2013

Things to come

There are fears of the future, but this movie really put that into society's mind. The idea that we will have to live this incredibly upsetting future with little to no food, water and our technology is frightening. Of course, there is a sense of relief that maybe there will be a future for us; a future that has a lot more than we had before the disaster. Things to Come was frightening to the point where we would live in a world without technology and of course, still live in a patriarchal society... OF COURSE. I'm pretty sure that's the scariest thing out of all the fears the movie had depicted.  

The characters in this movie were sassy men with little to no knowledge about the world and what it has become. The characters did make themselves a world to live in and were given an opportunity to live in a new, better world with the help of a stranger from 'space,' Cabal. He was someone that was coming to give them freedom and hope for the future. Sadly, it took half of the movie to get to that point, but eventually it worked.

Near the end of the movie, one points out where our technology ends and when we stop moving forward. It was said that the end is death and if we live and continue to build, then we are not living. This was interesting to me, because truthfully society will always keep building and moving no matter what. If we came to a halt, there would be no more progress and no more things we need to survive, especially technology.

I was not a fan of the film. As a feminist, I would like to see the DAMN FUTURE depict more women as leaders or people that matter. Of course, it's still funny to me that a lot of these bad decisions made, the wars and the destruction of our society was all caused by men. It would be interesting to see what the world would have been like if women ran it. Anyway, it seems as those there are two different parts to Things to Come: A realistic part and the scientific, fiction part. For instance, during the beginning of the movie, they're a normal society that gets attacked and left for dead. Their earth has crumbled, everything they built was gone and nothing was left. They had to survive off of whatever they had left and have to work together as a society to live and survive. The second half of the movie is when a stranger from a distant land gets taken as a hostage on their land but is eventually rescued. From here, they go to this society that is all futuristic and modern. When I watched the movie insidious, I always said it was like watching a movie that was split in two. The beginning of the movie was about a family waiting for their child to wake up from a coma, but the audience soon find out it's not a coma, but something to do with ghosts. Then in the second part of the movie, it just gets more unrealistic by placing the father in this limbo type of place and a devil looking creature that follows after them. I compared both these films, because to me I was lost and confused as to way they would switch up so dramatically and it was odd for me to watch. With Things to Come, it felt like I was watching another film, and I wasn't impressed. The second half was too long and plain boring. Their ideas of the future were somewhat idiotic as well. I can appreciate i-Robots ideas about the future because they're still similar as our lives now, but Things to Come seems to be way off and kind of embarrassing.

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