Sunday, May 29, 2005
caught star wars last week... pretty good i guess, at least in terms of the action scenes. the storyline though is pretty lacking and the script is almost crappy at some of the important parts of the show. acting wise i guessthere is also much to be desired, anakin (Hayden Christensen) seem to be quite detached from his role and at the start obi-wan was simply a joke at the start of the movie, just dun understand how can lucas do that to such a respected jedi master...
besides the fancy dress party, i guess we (zhilin & i) agree that there are certain morals behind the story. first is the murky greying between the good and the bad. this duality seems to be the theme of the movie anyway. how can u reject the power to save someone u love while proclaiming that u are saving lives? and yet to save that one person u must kill so many others? such dilemmas are quite 'unresolvable'...
'train urself to release wat u hold dear, u must'
another interesting fact bout the movie is the treatment of politics in the galaxy... the chancellor changed the republic to a empire without so much as any resistance from the senate, although he did attack the jedi temple. but the point is such a switch will not affect the vast majority of the people in the galaxy. indeed towards the end we see that tatooine is still a peaceful laid-back planet. making comparisons with the world today, perhap the push to democratize the world will not affect the life of many. it is only on paper that such actions that place with no change or improvement to the lives of the man in the street, leading to wide-spread apathy , and allowing dictators to reign... and so the vicious circle continues...
'This is how Liberty dies - with thunderous applause'
so i guess there are issues that are highlighted in the movie, although its almost seems lyk a coincidence that its there at all... haha... okie then shall end here... cya...
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