Read this after you have seen the film and please go see it. It is very good. Below is a post that is parts review, critical exegesis of the film and reflection of its critical reception. The post has been languishing in my drafts folder for a few weeks and it was only after two of my friends Myke and Mel both wrote reviews of the film that, if I am not being to pithy, were negative.
This made me lol!
(via transport)
Here is a little diddy we created during our respective lunch breaks. Shall write up a review in a few days when I have time.
Where thee be,
Faraway tree,
In a faraway land,
On faraway sand.
They live in you,
With skin of blue,
Running through trees,
Running and free.
Floating rocks,
And dragon flocks,
Wisdom does grow,
With plants that glow.
But families, friends
It could all end.
These connected lands,
These connected hands.
A great war of all,
Saw thee tree fall,
Falling, fallen, lost,
Losing home the cost.
Yet united we stand,
To defend this land,
Guns against paws,
Bombs against claws.
Love unifies all creatures,
All their differing features.
An old strength is born,
On the new light of dawn.
By Maarinke and I.
RIP John Hughes, of a time that was just before mine, I am jealous of those who have your films to define their youth
Lazarus: You really think you’re making a difference?
O’Niel: [shrug]
Lazarus: Then why for god’s sake?
O’Niel: Because.. maybe they are right. They send me here to this pile of shit becaue maybe I belong here… I want to find out… well… if they’re right. There is a whole machine that works because everyone does what they are supposed to. I find out I was supposed to be something I didn’t like… that’s whats in the program, that’s my rotten little part, in the rotten machine. I don’t like it… so, I’m going to find out if they’re right.
Lazarus: You’re wife is one stupid lady… You want to go get drunk?
O’Niel: Yes.
In the above section of dialogue in the film Outland the Federal Marshal O’Niel, played by Sean Connery, is explaining to the doctor why he doesn’t just leave the remote mining facility on one of the moons of Jupiter and go back to Earth with his beautiful wife and son. There are obvious connections between Outland and High Noon. Although High Noon is a moralistic celebration of the individual will, Outland is somewhat dystopian. There is a typical resolution in the end of the film but the struggle of the main character is less between O’Niel and the drug dealers and assasins, or even an existential turmoil, but between O’Niel and the ‘rotten system’ where everyone does what they are ‘supposed’ to do.
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