meh.

[sophiaserpentia]

Watched "Kn0w1ng" last night.

Movies should come with a warning: "Danger: this movie is actually fundamentalist Christian propaganda disguised as science fiction." The ending makes just as much sense as the Rapture myth.

The first half was well-done though.

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[fizzyland.livejournal.com]

The other warning label should be: Contains Nic Cage

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

They're usually happy to tell you that right at the top, though. This bait-and-switch though, where you get halfway into the movie and realize that it is actually a piece of propaganda, is extremely annoying.

[legolastn.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie and have no intention to so I've seen the plot summaries. My impression is that fundamentalists would hate it and see it as an atheistic appropriation/ perversion of their beliefs rather than disguised propaganda, though, no?

[sophiaserpentia.livejournal.com]

My impression is that fundamentalists would hate it and see it as an atheistic appropriation/ perversion of their beliefs

*Possibly*, but I don't think so. Fundamentalists know that their worldview is unpopular in the larger culture and tend to see it as a "blow for the good guys" when their themes creep up like this.

Besides, it has all the dog whistles. Dog whistles all over the place. Bible quotes. An atheist who comes around and is a believer right before he dies, for all the good it does him. The protagonist (Cage) sees the page full of numbers, figures out what they mean, even parses out where he's supposed to be and when, and goes there at that time, only to be told by his son that "only those who heard the call" will be rescued. By which he means, only those who heard the direct speaking of the alien/angels. So the entire warning and message is a meaningless red herring, an aside, because the angels have already chosen which people get to go with them. So only the chosen few are saved, and then Cage gets to drive back to civilization, where civil order is collapsed and the underlying depravity of the unsaved reveals itself.

[usha93.livejournal.com]

The ending makes just as much sense as the Rapture myth.

The Rapture myth trips me out. I grew up Catholic and RCs don't recognize this particular part of the mythos.

I saw a bumper sticker on a car out on the road one day long ago, reading "WARNING! IN CASE OR RAPTURE, THIS CAR WILL BE UN-MANNED!" and had no clue WTF -- my fundie ex had to explain it to me, LOL. (My original guess had to do with vibrators and orgasms-while-driving = "rapture," and "un-manned" --??-- some sort of castration fantasy, perhaps? :o)

[layitlarge.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the warning...I was thinking of buying that DVD this week.