Wednesday, June 14, 2017
Which Reminds Me
Yes, it is true that I saw the movie "Star Wars" during college, and the "force" was presented there in fictional narrative format with multitudinous special effects. Unfortunately, the "force" of science fiction movies is often an vaguely amoral notion of strength or might makes right, not really a matter of good vs. evil. And if the evil has more brute force than the good, and the good is virtuous by means of submission or service, what then? These simplistic scenarios are entertaining on the TV screen yet often fail to hit the mark due to extreme irrelevancy, thus not eliciting any meaningful comment from the unconnected audience member sitting in front of the family room TV set.