Jazz’s Blog

The most recent movie I’ve seen was last night, I watched The Fifth Element for about the 20th time. I have no idea what I like about it. There have been many futuristic movies that try to create the world in a few millenniums as filled with technology and even everyday life with aliens. It just shows how much faith they have in the scientists of the world to create amazing inventions and improve life. Most of the movies that show some type of future of mankind either have the world filled with violence or have almost no violence at all. Like in this movie, crime seemed to be much more under control than it is today. However, there was scene when Mathieu Kassovitz’s (whose birthday happens to be today) character tried to rob Corbin (Bruce Willis), and there was a lot of murder of the aliens, but it didn’t seem to be a huge problem. It just seems like there’s only two options for the future; either crime has vanished along with cars that still use roads on the ground, or crime is so prevalent that people can’t even leave their homes or use their bodies to do anything anymore. Just like The Matrix, people are ‘protected’ from themselves and don’t use their own bodies to do anything real, instead they just live in their mind and are somewhat protected from real life crime. Similarly, a new movie coming out called Surrogates is very similar in that people send out body doubles to do everything for them instead of risking their own lives. It just shows that no one knows what will happen in terms of the advancement of technology and or the progess of crime and violence in the world. It’s one or the other, never both, at least none that I can think of at the moment.

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