Science Fiction for females and dating with a dimwit.
Yesterday I saw "The Host" a science fiction movie obviously aimed at female audience. Theoretically one would be better at understanding women by watching media aimed at them. Often I find the opposite being the case and this also applies for The Host.
To summarise The Host it's about a future where alien species have taken over the bodies of humans in order to modify their personalities. They clearly have a good purpose with doing this and the entire planet has been transformed to a place with no hunger, no crime and no pollution where everyone treat each other with curtiousy, honesty and respect. So in short the planet has been transformed to a socialist utopia that is very different from the actual communist hellholes from reality.
The next scene is a where the main character tries killing herself as she takes the saying "Rather dead than red" literally and jumps out of a window to avoid having her personality altered. However she does not die from falling five stories crashing on concrete, but instead she is revived and inserted with an Alien personality.
So far so good. But that's only the first five minutes of the movie. Then it went straight down the drain. Because when she wakes up her Alien personality and human personality has a small clash and then she decides to go to a hellhole in the middle of the desert to join up with the human resitance movement led by her uncle. The rest of the movie is basically about how her human and Alien personality clashes as the human side want to "kiss" (Let's assume she wanted hardcore sex which was replaced by the desire to kiss in the movie to get a low age limit) her ex boyfriend while the alien side wants to kiss another guy. And this dilemma is the main focus for the remaining 1 1/2 hours of the movie. Completely uninteresting and such a waste of a movie that could have focused a lot on heaps of more relevant questions.
Questions like
- How did the peaceloving socialist utopia Aliens manage to invade earth in the first place?
- Is freedom to do evil and selfish choices really a good thing to fight for? The Aliens apparently blocked all the evil impulses of human brain but is that necessarily a bad thing?
- What were the long time agenda of the Aliens? How were they organised? Were they a democrazy or a dictatorship?
And some minor ones:
- If there was a war by humans and Aliens why were the Aliens so uninterested in finding the human resistance stronghold that they only sent a small unarmed squad that did not seem very interested in finding the stronghold.
- Why does the Aliens just withdraw their small unarmed search squad after being robbed by the humans and had some of their citizens kidnapped and killed by the resistance.
None of these questions is answered and the movie was completely senseless which is a shame because the backstory is quite interesting I reckon.
And for the boring main topic who to kiss (have sex with). Why not solve that question in two minutes with one of these two easy solutions:
- Have sex with both the men, there seemed to be a shortage of hot women at the resistance camp so I am sure they could have come up with a compromise, that benefited both the human side and the alien side of her personality as well as their respective love interests.
- Have sex with the humans ex boyfriend only. It does not make sense that the Alien would care that much about who she is having sex with anyway.
Moving on today I went to a date with a real dimwit. I thought in advance that it maybe was not a good idea to go on a date with someone who expresses herself as a 12 year old in text messages although she is 26 years old. On the other hand her pictures were hot so as the eternal optimist (or as a truly desperate) I decided to go as she in theory might be a lot smarter in real life. As it turned out, she was not. Apparently her main interest was prank calls, and her job was handing out samples dressed up as ice cream (and she actually enjoyed it) Worse yet she thought it was great idea to spend most of the date texting people (I can imagine a lot of 13 year old girls think that's a great way to behave during a date as well) So all in all a real disaster with a very confusing end. Because when our ways parted she said "I would love to catch up again" which of course might have been sarcasm; but that's also strange as sarcasm still requires some form of intelligence.
Oh well at least I am not disappointed today..:)
// The Master
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