Originally Posted By jonvn I've been to the movies a couple times in the last few weeks and I've noticed something. There is a lot of paranoia about the government spying on us and being incompetent is floating about. This really struck home while watching The Simpsons Movie, where the government actually moves to kill a city full of people, and are spying on everyone and everything. I've seen this in a couple of other films too (can't place them). I think this represents a rather low opinion of how people in this country are now viewing the government. Some will say that this is just the reflection of the film makers ideas, but I think it's also rooted in a general perception of a prying, invasive, and useless federal government that is just doing nothing but damaging the lives of the people of this nation without a care or thought. That certainly was the subtext of The Simpsons, and I think that's becoming a more popular belief all the time.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I would sum it up as no one in politics and Government, local, State or Federal is willing to take responcibility for any of their action. Need proof? Look at New Orleans. And yes the media is out there creating hype too.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Last night I was watching the Pilot for a new TV series called "Chuck". Basically the premise is that a CIA agent downloaded the memory of the CIA computer database and uploaded it into a message to a his "Nerd" excollege buddy Chuck. Chuck opens the email ( as he thinks its a birthday message from his excollege buddy ). This is happening while the NSA kills the CIA agent. So the CIA and NSA know where the message was uploaded to. Chuck wakes up 24 hours later not knowing he had a computer data base "dumped" into his brain. But he quickly realizes he knows technical information he isn't suppose to. So the CIA and NSA are out to kill Chuck. Enough of the conspiracy shows already!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom Then I watched the pilot for another show about a San Fransisco news paper reporter who unwillingly travels back in time to "fix" the past. He comes across his ex-fiance who is suppose to be dead ( she supposeably died in an commercial place crash but her body was never found. Turns out she can travel back in time too. Everytime he gets back into the present day no one will believe him when he says he can travel back in time... his marriage is on the rocks... so he takes his wife's engagement ring ( he was having it cleaned ) placed it in a box and buried it under a brick walkway in their backyard..... then he gets back to the present day and ( with his wife ) digs it up to prove to her that he is telling the truth. Oh and his brother is a San Fansisco cop who doesn't believe him ....... the police officer brother ( along with everyone else ) thinks he's doing drugs. There is one scene when he's driving his car then disappears.. the car goes on ( driverless) through a red light striking two other cars. So he has no control over when this is all happening.
Originally Posted By jonvn Post 3: See, just what I'm talking about. Shows about the government going after the citizens to capture or kill them. I think the subtext here is that the public is becoming afraid of the government, and it is bringing forth these sorts of themes in our entertainment.
Originally Posted By DAR Of course Chuck is also said to be a light hearted tv show. Conspiracy type movies, shows and books have been around for years.
Originally Posted By DAR For the record I'm not afraid of the government because they're really too inept to do anything.
Originally Posted By JohnS1 I think that plot lines featuring dirty cops, evil government agencies, political leaders on the take, etc. have always been a theme of movies and novels for decades. People like the idea of secret plots and the everyman characters who uncover them and save the world. Nothing really new here as far as I can see.
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Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Can someone explain to me these posts? < If they could it would likely be worth a pullitzer -- just bizarre
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