stevenrunfeldt
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I am sure that the book is great. But so is this film.
The spiritual lesson is about seeing the light that you cannot see with your eyes. It is also about how connections can exist between people who have never met physically. Love does not follow physical laws.
This film is a romance with action scatteeed throughout.
My dad fought in Europe from D-Day to VE-Day, from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge to Czechoslovakia. He was there for the battle for Brittany. So watching the final scenes led me to see him among the American soldiers.
I guess now I will have to read the book. But the film is excellent.
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The spiritual lesson is about seeing the light that you cannot see with your eyes. It is also about how connections can exist between people who have never met physically. Love does not follow physical laws.
This film is a romance with action scatteeed throughout.
My dad fought in Europe from D-Day to VE-Day, from Normandy through the Battle of the Bulge to Czechoslovakia. He was there for the battle for Brittany. So watching the final scenes led me to see him among the American soldiers.
I guess now I will have to read the book. But the film is excellent.
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I believe this is the first film adaptation that places itself in the Victorian era. (Queen Victoria died in 1901, when this story begins.)
While therw are some deviations in the plot from Wells' original, there are many more aspects than any other film that are true to what Wells actually wrote. The comment about colonialism, for example, is drawn right from the book:
"And before we judge them (the Martians) too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" - Chapter I, "The Eve of the War"
Do not listen to the ignorant negative reviews that complain about progressive ideas in this film. Wells was very progressive for his day.
While therw are some deviations in the plot from Wells' original, there are many more aspects than any other film that are true to what Wells actually wrote. The comment about colonialism, for example, is drawn right from the book:
"And before we judge them (the Martians) too harshly, we must remember what ruthless and utter destruction our own species has wrought, not only upon animals, such as the vanished Bison and the Dodo, but upon its own inferior races. The Tasmanians, in spite of their human likeness, were entirely swept out of existence in a war of extermination waged by European immigrants, in the space of fifty years. Are we such apostles of mercy as to complain if the Martians warred in the same spirit?" - Chapter I, "The Eve of the War"
Do not listen to the ignorant negative reviews that complain about progressive ideas in this film. Wells was very progressive for his day.
This is not an action distopian film.
It is a touching reflection on life told by a dying man. Very moving. Addresses questions of what is human, what is life, what is consciousness. I loved it.
The film, of course, is carried by Tom Hanks, who again proves what a great actor he is.
But the actor playing Jeff holds up his end as well. The naive and simplistic character of Jeff, with a database full of facts, shows more of what spirituslity is abour, soul, than any human character.
I have been getting tired of distopian shhot-em-ups. This was a very positive distopian story. With hope at the end.
It is a touching reflection on life told by a dying man. Very moving. Addresses questions of what is human, what is life, what is consciousness. I loved it.
The film, of course, is carried by Tom Hanks, who again proves what a great actor he is.
But the actor playing Jeff holds up his end as well. The naive and simplistic character of Jeff, with a database full of facts, shows more of what spirituslity is abour, soul, than any human character.
I have been getting tired of distopian shhot-em-ups. This was a very positive distopian story. With hope at the end.