Thursday, June 23, 2005

Since Randy is sick and so we had a free cut for our Comm Research class, Lizzie and I decided to watch a movie in Gateway mall. We were supposed to watch Batman Begins but since the earliest screening time for the movie was around 1 (and the movie is 2 hours and 20 minutes long) and she had to be back in school before 3, we decided to watch Hitchhiker’s Guide to Galaxy (H2G2), even if we had absolutely no idea what the movie is about. It just had the earliest screening time that day.

An irony to the title of the film, I could say we were not guided.. rather, we were both lost. We left the theater puzzled – that if someone would approach us and ask what the movie was about, I doubt it that we would be able to answer. Hahaha.

The funny thing was we both thought that Philosophy was haunting us. (we both have our first Philo of Man classes this sem, by the way). Why? :p The movie mentioned finding the answer to the unknown ultimate question – which we think is of course, the essence of our being – the meaning of life, of all that there is, of all that is of existence. And the computer in the film said that the answer is : 42. crap, “what’s that about?!” (haha, imitating the expression of my Philo prof). She, the computer,(she is in the form of a woman, by the way) made quite a good point there though when she said that the meaning of that answer would only be revealed if they (those who asked) fully knew and understood what their question was. I think – what it means to point out is that answers are understood / interpreted depending on the questions that were asked. (huh? It is really confusing. But isn’t that the point of Philo, to confuse us so that we may ask? I hope I am making sense.)

An interesting object in the film was the Point-of-View gun which when you use to shoot someone, that person tends to think the same way that you do or in the same line of thinking / POV as yours.
Towards the end, the movie claimed that the most intelligent creatures are mice, discrediting its initial statement that humans are the most intelligent, next are dolphins. (I am not sure of this, though. Basta, it said that humans and dolphins are two of the most intelligent, hehe). but as I’ve said earlier, I didn’t ‘get’ the movie so I really could not tell you why mice are intelligent.