http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/04/08/between-dimensions-starman-still-connects%e2%80%a6-but-with-keanu/ Blog and Podcast Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/04/08/between-dimensions-starman-still-connects%e2%80%a6-but-with-keanu/comment-page-1/#comment-579609 puba Sat, 09 May 2009 10:32:38 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=18590#comment-579609 Starman was the movie that introduced me to aliens in cinema, after that i watched close encounters with Richard Dreyfuss. I really loved the way Bridges was like a baby in so many ways learning human. My favorite scene was when he ran the yellow light, because human life has so much of the, "these are the rules, break them at your peril," aspect. Everyone breaks the rules, believing we can avoid or survive the consequences never taking into account that humans make rules for a good reason, even if they become a pain in the butt. When i was of a single digit age this movie sunk that point home for me in a way disciplinary action never could. It also did a great job of illustrating the precariousness of living because life is risky regardless of the species. Also for a little while their was a television series in which youngster from Starman's species was sort of marooned on Earth and raised by humans, trying to get 'home', to learn more about his origins, it was interesting but could not have lasted and unfortunately did not have the herky-jerkiness of learning a new and alien culture since the series was about a man who was raised human. The show was discontinued before the protagonist ever got home, but it might have been interesting to watch the Starkid get to this alien world and have him represent humanity as he learns alien and wanders through that culture making the necessary herky-jerky transition Curt and I both found so heart-warming. Perhaps a retrospective in actual theaters featuring aliens teaching hums how to behave humanely would be in order sometimes we're xenophobic like "Yob" and "Mot"'s parents afraid of anything different to the point of revulsion and sometimes it takes a creature so unlike our self to remind us who we are just like Louis Gosset Jr in Enemy Mine. And we sure could use some reminding, now. What is it to be human, anyway? Starman was the movie that introduced me to aliens in cinema, after that i watched close encounters with Richard Dreyfuss. I really loved the way Bridges was like a baby in so many ways learning human. My favorite scene was when he ran the yellow light, because human life has so much of the, “these are the rules, break them at your peril,” aspect. Everyone breaks the rules, believing we can avoid or survive the consequences never taking into account that humans make rules for a good reason, even if they become a pain in the butt. When i was of a single digit age this movie sunk that point home for me in a way disciplinary action never could. It also did a great job of illustrating the precariousness of living because life is risky regardless of the species. Also for a little while their was a television series in which youngster from Starman’s species was sort of marooned on Earth and raised by humans, trying to get ‘home’, to learn more about his origins, it was interesting but could not have lasted and unfortunately did not have the herky-jerkiness of learning a new and alien culture since the series was about a man who was raised human. The show was discontinued before the protagonist ever got home, but it might have been interesting to watch the Starkid get to this alien world and have him represent humanity as he learns alien and wanders through that culture making the necessary herky-jerky transition Curt and I both found so heart-warming. Perhaps a retrospective in actual theaters featuring aliens teaching hums how to behave humanely would be in order sometimes we’re xenophobic like “Yob” and “Mot”’s parents afraid of anything different to the point of revulsion and sometimes it takes a creature so unlike our self to remind us who we are just like Louis Gosset Jr in Enemy Mine. And we sure could use some reminding, now. What is it to be human, anyway?

]]> http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/04/08/between-dimensions-starman-still-connects%e2%80%a6-but-with-keanu/comment-page-1/#comment-564667 Bob The Slob Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:15:50 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=18590#comment-564667 carpenter is god. I love starman. Nice curt, completely agree. I really like your christian parallels theory too. carpenter is god. I love starman. Nice curt, completely agree. I really like your christian parallels theory too.

]]> http://www.filmjunk.com/2009/04/08/between-dimensions-starman-still-connects%e2%80%a6-but-with-keanu/comment-page-1/#comment-564666 Bob The Slob Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:14:50 +0000 http://www.filmjunk.com/?p=18590#comment-564666 carpenter is god. I love starman. carpenter is god. I love starman.

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