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Jedi Master
I guess a few years ago I also would have enjoyed this movie more. However, the timing of the movie is suspicious concerning the context of our reality which as detailed on the Sott page and by our intrepid researchers is that fireballs and bolides have increased significantly in the last few years and comet dust and whatever is in it is being deposited in greater quantities in our atmosphere. The PTB have a vested interest in keeping us entertained and feeling good and for keeping us distracted from the real threat or the truth. In Laura's book, Comets and the Horns of Moses, she details what happens during these times of transition when comets appear in the sky and there are signs in the heavens. This movie goes into high-powered overdrive to explain away those pesky details of our reality and to provide a plausible lie that it's all just space junk. Thor's Pantheuum anyone.
Also, trotting out the Russians as the villains... again. But this too serves its propaganda purpose. Americans, and by extension many others around the world via the eye of Hollywood, remember all those years the Russians/Soviets were our enemy. The world's enemy. They were against democracy and capitalism and our way of life. Simply put, they're bad and we're good so whatever our leaders or representatives do in the non movie screen reality of the real world is fine and dandy. Except that some pretty disgusting stuff is going on in Syria right now so ratcheting up that the Russians are the bad guys in the minds of the public is reprehensible to me. I guess after viewing the propaganda set up of the movie I wasn't much in the mood for all the noble gestures. They seemed hollow and insincere.
Cubbie, I didn't mention the end of the movie but I also noticed the effort exerted to make the falling Chinese Space Station look like fireballs. That was intentional. Looked just like some of the photos and videos we've seen on these very pages that were most definitely not space junk. To me, the end was blatant cinematic propaganda, with Sandra Bullock crawling out of the primordial ooze, after having been reborn, we in the audience are in a state or mood of sympathy, primed for a message. We're empathic with all she's been through. We're in her shoes, seeing the new world through her eyes and emotions and then she looks up to see the fiery remains of the Chinese Space Station blazing through the atmosphere and thus we are implanted with the lie that fireballs are simply the wreckage of our own space satellites, vehicles and various other contraptions. Our empathy for Sandra and all she's been through is used against us to imprint that one last lie.
Also, trotting out the Russians as the villains... again. But this too serves its propaganda purpose. Americans, and by extension many others around the world via the eye of Hollywood, remember all those years the Russians/Soviets were our enemy. The world's enemy. They were against democracy and capitalism and our way of life. Simply put, they're bad and we're good so whatever our leaders or representatives do in the non movie screen reality of the real world is fine and dandy. Except that some pretty disgusting stuff is going on in Syria right now so ratcheting up that the Russians are the bad guys in the minds of the public is reprehensible to me. I guess after viewing the propaganda set up of the movie I wasn't much in the mood for all the noble gestures. They seemed hollow and insincere.
Cubbie, I didn't mention the end of the movie but I also noticed the effort exerted to make the falling Chinese Space Station look like fireballs. That was intentional. Looked just like some of the photos and videos we've seen on these very pages that were most definitely not space junk. To me, the end was blatant cinematic propaganda, with Sandra Bullock crawling out of the primordial ooze, after having been reborn, we in the audience are in a state or mood of sympathy, primed for a message. We're empathic with all she's been through. We're in her shoes, seeing the new world through her eyes and emotions and then she looks up to see the fiery remains of the Chinese Space Station blazing through the atmosphere and thus we are implanted with the lie that fireballs are simply the wreckage of our own space satellites, vehicles and various other contraptions. Our empathy for Sandra and all she's been through is used against us to imprint that one last lie.