Friday, July 14, 2006

Æon Flux

Æon Flux is an adaptation for the series "Æon Flux " aired on MTV. Staring Charlize Theron as Æon Flux , Marton Csokas as Trevor Goodchild and Jhonny Lee Miller as Oren Goodchild. It is a scince fiction movie taking place in the future. The whole movie accentuates the life of Æon Flux and her quest for the truth.
"The film is set 400 years in the future, when a virus has wiped out 99 percent of the Earth's population with the survivors inhabiting a walled, protected city-state named Bregna which is ruled by a congress of scientists. The story centers on Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion led by The Handler. When Æon is sent on a mission to kill a government leader, Trevor Goodchild (Marton Csokas), she uncovers a secret coup and answers about the past and future of Bregna's inhabitants which leads her to doubt her mission."**
quoted from
www.wikipedia.org
The movie tackles the controversial scientific discovery, cloaning. People are living like experimental rats. Living in an open prison. And more than that, they find out that they are only copies of themselves, what kind of life is that?! Anyway, for every action there is a reaction. The group of rebelllions called "Monicans" stand up in the face of the dectatorial government of Goodchild. Although their world, Bregna, seems to be a happy one, mistery charges its atmosphere. People disappear and killed at anytime and their cases are always left unsolved.
Can cloaning save the world? Bregna was formed to save the human species. Yet we are meant to die, and only nature is the one who is obsolete not us. We only live once, but with hope. In the case of this movie the scientist responsible for the cloaning process, lives his all his lives ,and I mean his copies too, on the hope of finding his lost love, Katherine, the original copy of Æon Flux. When Æon first met him she felt like she saw him before that she new him in another life.Memories started to flash back in her mind leading her to discover the life s
he once lived, as Trevor's wife.
Man clings to this life and does what ever he can do to postpone his death, that reached the extreme nowadays by trying to have eternal youth, This was dramatized by Oren Goodchild. as he opposed every chance to stop cloaning. The cloaning process started first to save the human race, but had a fatal complication, sterility. So, scientific researches continued to solve the problem, experimenting on the generations of copies of the original survivors. Yet nature prevailed at the end and the sterility problem was solved without the involvment of the scientist, and since this solution would stop cloaning, Oren Goodchild opposed it and started killing any pregnant woman, and from here started the sieries of mysterious incidents of killing and dissappearing.
As good as the idea and the story of the movie are, the movie was some what boring, The sound effects and visiual effects failed to bring the idea in perfect picture to the viewer. It had a very slow pace at the beggining which made the viewer lose interest in what is happening. The movie reminded me of Jim Cary's "True Man Show" as he also lived as an experiment all his life in an open prison which lead to his state of rebellion at the end, exactly like the imergence of the Monikan rebellious movement. People would think that it is impossible to live in a walled country, an open prison, but unfortunatly if one opens his eyes he will find the paralles to this sad unhuman situation in real life.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

A Pause.

Hello everyone:o)
First of all I would like to thank everyone who spends a minuite of his/her time to even skim over my blog.
It's been a long time not posting. So, I would like to apologize for that. Well one must keep in mind that a writer -a begginer like me- may pass through periods of drought. Ideas are rain drops, falling on a peice of land. Ideas gather in a writer's head like clouds gather in the sky. Condensing on the narrow tip of his pen, clashing with one another till one touches the paper, then a stream of drops follows, nourishing the readers' minds.
I don't want to deviate from the theme of the blog -movies. But as a break I will have a very small deviation, yet somewhat related. Living in a fast busy life one must be focused, and know everthing going around him. The easiest thing to follow what is happening in the world is watching the news. Nowadays, news became a double weapon, manipulating the viewers mental and emotional abilities. In the East where alot of countries live under occupation, the news present alot of bloody scenes, for women, elderly and even children, screaming in pain or agony for the loss of a family member. While the West, where people are nearly living comfortable lives. The news there is less bloody, always concentrating on the good things happening around them.
Eastern news emotionally manipulate the viewers. Charging them with raging emotions, pushing them to rebel to their status quo. While Western news mentally manipulate the viewers. Portraying the world around them as peaceful a good as they can, blocking them from knowing the truth.
Along ages and the case is the western occupation of the east, whether physically or culturaly. The easiest effective weapon nowadays, to fight occupation or support it, is the news. Governing powers on both sides control what messages should be sent to the public, even if it reaches the extent of manipulating the truth.
Subbmission became the dominant feature of the occupied governments. Bashing any hope for resitstance, following orders of "great powers". So, maybe it is the right of eastern news to resist and enlighten the viewers -what else can be done?! May it wake some dead feelings. Are people used to seeing these aweful scenes?!
Yet there are still some free voices in the West to bring the truth to the viewers, but still not in direct messages but in movies like done in "V for Vendetta","Munich", "Crash" and "Syriana". Istarted this blog to point out these messages to help enlighten the readers, but there are not many movies of this genre.
I decided to write about controversial movies like "The Da Vinci Code", but finally found myself writing about other types of movies too, to fulfill the readers' desiers- and i am still in peace with that, what is a writer without readers?! So, comments are always welcomed.

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