Movies

I'm back. One of my favourite questions to ask recently has been, 'if you were a character in a disaster movie what would you be?' Well I've only asked a few folks actually. I liked Donald's answer, the one that survives. Some people are definitely focussed on being the ones that don't survive though. If evolution is true then why is there so many Movie Distaster losers? The Disaster Movie has moved on a bit recently, they seem more real and imminent. And world-wide bigger.

Movies tell us a lot about what's going on in our heads. The Revenge movie, step forth Clint, tells us a lot of us feel victimised or bullied. The horror movie maybe helps us to reconcile the enormous rage that is kept variously under the bonnet.

I wonder what the deeper motive behind the new disaster movie is all about. Is it the guilt we feel knowing that we are all personally screwing with our planet? Do we want to see what's coming. There is no doubt it must be catharctic in some way, why else woule people watch big modern Noah's arks with people dying and getting mutilated.

I love Tom McRae, the atomsphere and lyrics are apocolyptical and Donnie Darko. Yet they are strangely uplifiting. Reminds me of something I read about needing to get through the negative emotions to feel the positive ones.

Science throws up crazy numbers that are even worse than the recent bank bail-out for comprehending. On BBC four tonight there is a performance for people who claim to be non-religious to celebrate christmas with science and music and humour. They showed the view of the night sky and what a five pence piece sized space would look like if you held it up at a distance of 75 feet. Nothing is visible by the naked eye, but as it focussed in on the spot it was a journey through space that went on and on, then there was a view of hundreds of galaxies each with millions or billions of stars in each one. And Wow the universe is massive. Life is great.

I think I'd be one of the characters who would die one way or another, so maybe that makes me a glass half-full sort of person, or maybe I need to watch more cathartic movies - Horror, Disaster and real life dramas, sadly there are just not enough hours in the day.