Comments on: Neill Blomkamp Fools the Critics Again

By: Bill

Bill — Sun, 18 Aug 2013 16:10:27 +0000

While watching the film, I was struck by two main thoughts. The first was “I wonder if the rest of the world thinks that the US has magical tech that heals everything, but doesn’t share it because they are elitist jerks?”

The second thing was “I wonder how many Americans think that the US has magical healing tech that fixes everything?”

Re: the first thought: I wondered what it would be like if, instead of opening new bases to rain bombs down on civilian populations, the US opened new hospitals all over the world, and helped what people they could? (I’m the last person to be suggesting that holding hands and singing “Kumbaya” is the way to fix the world’s problems, btw. I’m just asking the question.)

Re: the second thought: I wonder how much of the endless consumption of food and beverage in the US is enabled by the belief that any illness can be fixed? Because in fact, the efficacy of healing technology in the US is WAY lower than most people believe.

By: Stretch

Stretch — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 01:04:59 +0000

It doesn’t matter what the message is Progs/Libs/Commies see only what they want to see.
“Rose colored glasses” is the best you can hope for.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 17:50:37 +0000

If I were 33, in possession of some measure of vision and clear story and directorial skills, and I wanted an enormous technical movie budget, and further, if I could trust that (a) my side of the story (as you describe) would be ‘gotten’ by the cognoscenti and that (b) I could successfully pitch it as a “progressive” anthem (as the critics perceive), I would definitely do it.

There’s plenty of time down the road for Blomkamp to de-cloak.