All Hallows Eve

Good All Hallows Eve!

Just a placeholder for the time being but I'll have something infinitely more interesting soon! Busy trying to catch up on everything since I had a bit of a run in with a wood splitter (the machine won by the way I wouldn't recommend crossing one of those mean spirited machine it oft ends poorly)

Film Analyst- Inception: The End?

       I picked the scene at the end of the movie as I feel it wraps out the piece in a wonderful way, while holding true to a theme of the movie that keeps the viewer guessing exactly what happened. At the end of the movie, Cobb (Main Character) awakes from Limbo, glancing around the 1st class of the plane you see all of the other characters awaking from the dream and getting up. Sato waking up looking at Cobb before making a phone call. Then it moves to Cobb stepping up to immigration to get into the USA, after a long nervous pause Cobb is allowed to pass, where he grabs his bags and you again see all of the characters (his friends/allies giving him a bit of a farewell nod) before it shows him walking to meet his Father-in-law which then fades to showing Cobb walking into his old home and the father in-law calling out to Cobb's Children, Cobb meanwhile takes out his top and spins it on the table. It then shows Cobb looking at the children and the audience finally his children faces leaving the top to spin on the table as he goes to them. Then as the camera fades out it shows the Top on the table beginning to wobble on the table.

I believe this scene is important as it ends the movie leaving the audience guessing whether or not Cobb and Sato actually got out of Limbo (endless Dream-land) or it is merely a dream of Cobb, as this scene drives home the question "Is this real or am I still sleeping?", or even "What is real?" giving the audience a philosophical question to ponder as the piece closes. As it shows unclear that Cobb got "out" or not, while reinforcing one of the main themes of the Film that Cobb can't tell whether he is dreaming or not without such a small item as a top.

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Journal 2: A bit on Science Fiction and Lord of the Rings.

I found the film Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the ring to be a most moving piece of film. The formal elements of the film are likely the cause for the reaction, as the camera work itself portrayed a sense of “epic” often using shots for a great distance to portray the landscape around the characters before zooming into them. The story itself is also a moving experience as it portrays a simple hobbit that eventually comes to save the world he didn’t even understand at the start of the film.

                I generally like to trend back and forth between science fiction and really historical fiction, but I’ll merely focus on the science fiction part. With science fiction I feel it is largely a mix of formal and cultural elements that influence me, as by in large I like to believe that I watch science fiction as a means to look forward, a means for new ideas or current idea’s taken into a new form. This largely appeals to the scientist nature of me as I desire to see innovation and progress rather than looking towards things set in more modern times. An example would like something like Batman Begins, or Inception, or even something like Star wars (the original not to be confused with the new films) where they either bring in new ideas prompting the “what if” question (hyperspace in star wars) or something that very likely isn’t that far out of our reach (many of batman’s gadgets) as a means to show technological progress.

Cheers

Movement of the absolutely unintended nature

Unfortunately due to a sad event of absolute memory failure I had to move my original blog to this page.

The Original posts if you wish to peer at are at. http://theskysfallinginspacetime.blogspot.com/

That said, let us hope this will not be occurring again anytime soon!