Sunday, May 07, 2006

MI:III and outing

Yeah..for those who know me...WHAT!!! You watch Tom Cruise??!!!
Who manage to point a gun to your head???
Wah...so clever..manage to push the bullet through your head and make you watch sia!!
Yeah...it is called social or group confromity mah...
I dun want to be labelled as wet blanket sia.

Anyway, the show ah..because we watch in a digital enhanced theatre so the special effects, SHIOK man!!!
But my ears actually going ringing sound...haiz....
The later parts are all spoilors or boring stuff...if you dun want to read it...go ahead and skip it
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The plot ah....u know hor...is the same lah...Alpha White, male, hero, saving from the US and world from his fellow white counterparts. Stereotypical sia.
The Black as sidekick and with bias (once again).
Nerds as sidekick, sacrificing job for greater good (once again).
But what I find it interesting in this entire movie, yes, just one interesting thing is that how this movie is able to relate to technology ethical dilemma.
Yup, I dare to die by taking a philo style course on ethics in information age.
Very interesting course and I learn alot.
One thing that the actor mention is about the speed of technology. It is developing and it may developed till it is at the speed of light.
This is sychronous with the ethical decisions which must be made as well at the speed of light. Impossible isnt it? But the technology has forced us to do it.
This is no technology determinist view but rather a very rational view on the technology. It is forcing us to do things yet people still feel that we have control over technology. Like what Heidegger says, yeah, we are one of the four causalities or factors that build up technology but we are definitely not the only one shaping technology. We cannot see the other 3 causalities because we are contectually and historically situated.
Same thing, due to the speed of technology, it seems to empower only the white, male and elite. But what about the oppressed like women, LDCs and other racial groups??
Well, this movie shows it all. Those it is a bit irony that it is the show which is also a tool of technology to reveal all this to us yet in the later part, it reverts back to the hero ideology that US has always embraced.
The traitor, Musgrave, belongs to the R & W pple, believing in using technology to solve the problems of technology that it created. So ridiculous. If it is causing problem in the first place, so what makes you so sure that the solution to the first problem will not cause any problems?
The agent is himself in dilemma as well, ethically speaking.
A question that I had is that would speed be a factor in making him make such a decision? The speed of technological development terrifies him so he took such a decision?
Even though he tries to speaks from an oppressed standpoint, I feel he is benefiting himself only, the whites and elites. Nothing grand and no further details on what happens after he succeed.
The question remains: So what???
Yeah..that's the strongest thing i felt.
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After that, we girls went shopping but I still feel uncomfy dragging a burden as Xin called it, but I prefer to call as a pair of twins. Duno how to shop, wait get lost then how.
Anyway, my luck continues to be down. Every shoes that I want has no size to fit me. haiz...Poor thing ah...
I see Cowsy so sick, I also feel sad. She reminds me of how I used to be like rushing for exams. Nearly want to puke!
Saw CZ. I feel reluctant to go there but since we meet face to face and Cowsy sort of signal us, I walked over lor.
I find him change a lot. Reminds me of Jianfa. Maybe they are buddies so more or less the same.
Sort of having a fake mask on. I don't like. If you don't want to talk to me say so, no point distorting your character to speak to me, no point really. I already know what kind of person he is. I am not intruding into his privacy, since he post his blog addr on friendster and I happen to see it. I storngly feel there is no private sphere on the internet. So cut the crap of private and public difference to me.
Haha...suprisingly, no pain liao...finally reach this stage. This is wonderful. Just chunk it aside and everything will be fine as normal.
Yeah.... it is.

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