Skin Flute Symphony

So...had a day off...

For the first time in months I had an actual day off without anything work or uni related....crazy and to be honest, somewhat weird. However I did go to the movies and see United 93, cause you know it is almost 5 years since 9/11 and we all became scared and more suspicious of difference.

My review will be in lazy journalist style, with a good section and bad section, and an overview at the end which will end up nothing like a film review.

The Good: Pretty amazing story and a seemingly realistic recreation of how it must have been on the plane and in the control rooms around America. Obviously 9/11 was a huge moment in modern history and has pretty much shaped the way a lot of our lives have continued since. The subject matter is handled pretty well and is filmed in a kind of frantic way which adds to the 'realism'

The Bad: As far as a movie goes, is hard to find much bad, although there really needs to be some mentioned made that a lot of the actions of the passengers in the taking back of the cockpit part are extremely speculative and can at best be pieced together by the recollections of phone calls made from the plane to loved ones. I don't doubt that there was some effort made to fight back, but what actually happened will never be known.

Overall: Not bad, I give it 3 out of 5 however I think there is a bigger picture behind all of this.

The western world is currently living through some testing times, definitely, but the this is harldy helped by the culture of fear that has been encouraged by the governments and the general media of these countries. I'm not a religious person at all, but I am open to everyone having their own choice. Does religion kill people? No, but extremists do, and every religion has its extremists...however we hardly ever hear about it unless those folks do something weird like wear a rag on their heads or pray 5 times a day. Personally, I have known a stack of Muslims, and they are no more violent than a majority if Christians I have met. Obviously there is an element of Islam that is driven to try and makes it point by any means necessary, but this is hardly a new thing...Christians have been doing it for years also.

Ultimately, I guess a society in fear is a society that can be managed easily...just as Governments like it. In the 50's it was Communism, now it is Muslims. At no other time would the general public be so flippant about the handling of refugees, or would the Cronulla riots actually gain support by some sections of the media (seen as good, solid white Australians fighting back against the evil swarthy middle easterners). For a country that has gained so much from multiculturism, we are proving to be not much more than bigoted rednecks and a step above buring crosses

posted by SkinFluteSymphony @ 10:41 AM