It's just a Movie?

It's not enough to say, it's just a movie, because movies hit directly at our emotions and all too often or ideas.  The emotion part is easy enough.  Directors for instance know that they must make an emotional connection with viewer in the first few minutes of the movie.  If he can't make the connection then, he won't get a second chance.  That ability to transmit emotion is the quality most sought after in actors.  It is this quality in actors, that makes their lives a mess, is that they mistake acting for love and vice versa.  The list of actors who fall in love on the set and leave their husbands or wives is lengthy. 

The part where of the movie where ideas are inserted, is the part, where viewers have a blank spot in their education, on the subject.  So, it is best to be an educated consumer of movies and not be a dolt who believes that movies are the Truth.  I am very much relieved that the vast majority of movies about the Iraq war have failed to attract many views.    That said, let me toss some cold water on you, as a mildly slam, two movies I really like. 

Take for example the marvelously crafted "Avatar," or the equally stunning "Jurassic Park" series.   Avatar never really tells you that this is the story is set in our universe, yes there are place names in the story, but we buy into into it, because the graphics draw you in.  In the "Avatar" universe where veterans do not get full medical care, unless they can pay for it.   If this story was set a hundred and fifty years in our future, it is where weapons  technology and employment is severely retarded.   It was the Vietnam War all over again.   It's like using civil war weapons and tactics being employed in our invasion of Afghanistan.  The more plausible military technology would be to simply use technology to deceive the Na'avi by employing the Avatar technology in exceptionally massive Hulks to assume lead leadership of the natives.  Yes, that was a play on Cortez. 

The Jurassic Park story, actually doesn't hinge on the inherent problem of creating dinosaurs but on hiring a computer programmer, who doesn't document his work and uses a Mac for everything.