Monday, November 21, 2016

Week 14 Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Blog  Week 14                                                                                                         Miranda Lee

There seem to be a lot of division in the galaxy in how each planet or sections of the galaxy have their own rules reminds me of many countries like USA or China that have many divided sections like states or province that each section of the countries have their own different rules and culture even if they are from the same land and race. There seems to be a lot of challenging the humans’ view point of logic and the hierarchy of species like the mice who are consider by human’s point of view a easy experiment but in this story we find that we the humans have been played with by the very creatures we have underestimated challenging the idea that humans are on top of the food chain and prime beings. To me it seems like the hitchhikers are like foreign tourist exploring a very eccentric and exotic places as backpackers or like hermits. This kinds of reflects humans to still be ignorant and in the hands of higher beings that is out of our control.

There seems to be an imbalance of wealth and power very similar in human society of having 1 percent of a population to have the most control of wealth and like the French revolution more than 80-90 people are poor when one group or in the (Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy) planet gets greedy for profit throwing the balance off and destroying the entire system. Unnecessary need for entertainment purpose because they are bored of being content.


The movie “Timer” on how humans rely on technology and don’t rely on their own self to tell if they found love or not that. That love or the perfect match of human emotion can be calculated like on online site or the old tradition of the matchmaker or status symbols. That human can’t trust himself or herself to find a suitable mate due to artificial influence by advertisements of what is the ideal mate. Playing on the female gender’s issues of being single for too long and not getting hitch before the expiration date (women’s age). That just because it is a suitable match may not match emotionally or naturally or if the timing and current situation is inappropriate or inconvenient. This movie plays on fate, destiny vs. chance in meeting. This movie has a very similar feel to another movie “Serendipity” that plays on chance in meeting and fate. The movie “Timer” addresses the question: will humans let them controlled themselves or let fate decide. Maybe if the human feel like they have earned their love it becomes love rather have an artificial unromantic way by following technology and therefore it doesn’t seem real and forced. It’s like the conflict of logic rationality vs. emotions feelings or intuition.


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