It is a rejection of climate-change hysteria.
We may work up the gumption to go see it this weekend.
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It is a rejection of climate-change hysteria.
We may work up the gumption to go see it this weekend.
[Update a while later]
Related thoughts from Mark Steyn.
Comments are closed.
Do see it in the theater.
You know you’ll see it eventually; this way you’ll see it while people are still talking about it, and you’ll get the big-screen visual experience.
And you should find [spoiler] gratifying.
Fantastic movie. Top shelf science fiction. See it in IMAX on a night when there wont be many people. The sound is so loud it shakes the empty seats next to you, it feels like you are in the movie.
First, the dust bowl was man-made – unsustainable farming practices based on some unusually wet years caused the dust bowl. Second, the movie repeatedly refers to some previous war. There’s the “New New York Yankees” playing baseball in a high-school stadium, McConaughey’s character is told to “repopulate the Earth” and there’s an Indian military drone flying over McConaughey’s farm. This last prompts a statement that “their Mission Control went down when ours did.”
I took the movie to imply that the blight and the lack of tech (such as no working MRI machines) as a result of a war. In any event, the situation on Earth is so bad that we have to evacuate the planet! I’m all for space colonization, but the idea that we need to run off-planet to survive suggests we did a great job wrecking Earth.
*** Don’t read this comment if you haven’t seen the movie***
“I took the movie to imply that the blight and the lack of tech (such as no working MRI machines) as a result of a war.”
I got the impression that there wasn’t any tech because a bunch of wannabe socialists took over the government and forced everyone to be farmers. Everyone’s lives were managed by the government. There wasn’t freedom to choose an occupation. Truth was withheld from the people, “for their own good.” Not just about Plan A and Plan B but also of history. Amazingly prescient considering the Gruber scandal.
You notice there were drone combines, so it wasn’t that such things couldn’t exist or operate. The movie showed that such things were possible but they didn’t exist for other reasons only alluded to. Maybe there were no more MRIs because the government didn’t want people to know what their lungs looked like? What caused the blight and drones to be separated from their controllers was unclear but they are probably related.
To me, it seemed like the response to whatever event that kicked everything off was totalitarian of the socialist nature and that response prevented our country from recovering or adapting. All of the characters that acted in support of this eventually turned out to be giant d*cks.
“but the idea that we need to run off-planet to survive suggests we did a great job wrecking Earth.”
Ya, that could be true but the movie also shows how the chosen ones also were going to wreck colonization. The plan wasn’t that everyone would survive, even though that was the public face, the plan was that only a few people with the right connections would survive, that only certain people’s genes would be passed on. That the ubermensch would reboot the human race but they all turned out to be crazy nut jobs rather than the shining example of humanity.
Can’t wait to watch the movie again. I forgot a lot of the things I noticed along the way because of how entertaining it was. Maybe when the commentary comes out we will get some extra insight rather than just speculation but it would be cool to see someone go all Room 327 on this.