Thursday, June 21, 2012

Prometheus

The FBI is called to the wrong building to investigate a bomb threat in Dallas, the two heroes in the story accidentally find the bomb in the building next door, the bomb expert called to defuse the bomb states he can defuse it but instead just sits and watches the bomb as the clock ticks down and the bomb explodes, the building is destroyed and looks exactly like the Federal Building in Oklahoma City attacked by McVeigh and the sequence ends with the two main characters who found the bomb being harangued by the FBI as if they were responsible for the explosion.

Why was the FBI called? Why were they called to the wrong building? Why did the FBI heroes investigate the building next door? Was the finding of the bomb a coincidence? Why does the bomb expert not defuse the bomb? Why does he chose to die? What does the destroyed building looking like the Oklahoma City bombing mean? What logic is behind blaming the explosion on the FBI personnel who found the bomb?

This is a superficial summary of the beginning of The X-Files movie but these questions were not answered. More, they were not asked. Welcome to the Drama of Innuendo, a growing technique in movies.
Perhaps we are just not paying attention anymore, perhaps we accept any stimulation as enjoyable whether it is reasonable or not.

Enter "Prometheus", a huge movie project by Ripley Scott that traces a period before the time of "Alien." Like X-Files it raises countless unexplained questions, plots and coincidences. Like X-Files, none are these questions are even asked, let alone answered. Like X-Files, this craziness was distinctly enjoyable and satisfying.

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