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.
Thursday, June 21, 2012
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