HAPPY EASTER everyone!!!
Have a choctastic easter!
Alas, no chocolate for me as I don't eat it anymore! Still this hasn't stopped me buying chocolate Easter eggs for everyone else. Oddly, since I stopped eating chocolate, I have become more inclined to buy chocolate for other people! I go into a shop, and I see some chocolate and I think, "That looks yummy! Person X would like that!" and then I buy the chocolate and give it to Person X (the chocolate becomes an incentive for my team or it becomes a random gift for my housemate). I think that what we are seeing is some kind of transference. Maybe secretly, I want the chocolate. Oddly, when I see chocolate, I very rarely feel any desire to eat it myself. I always used to find chocolate irresistable but nowadays my conscious craving for chocolate is pretty much dead. However, given my tendency to buy choclate for other people, perhaps at an unconscious level I still crave it.
Meanwhile, I've been watching dvds again and hence it is time for my weekly film review. This week I am going to tell you about The Time Machine. In brief, The Time Machine is a rather forgettable film and the plot represents a considerable and quite unjustified departure from HG Wells novel. A
bout the only feature of the film which remains unaltered is the fact that the Morlocks are cannibalistic. It is unfortunate to find that the film glosses over the origins of the Morlocks and the Eloi. According to the film, the Morlocks are simply the descendants of those who went underground after the Moon disintegrated and fell to Earth. In the book, the Morlocks are descendants of a social underclass who were forced to toil on the subterranean machines by the ancesters of the Eloi. Over time the Eloi became accustomed to a life of ease and freed from the need to work and to struggle to survive, became decadent and frail while the Morlocks continued to evolve. Finally, the oppressive existence of Morlocks been transformed them into the nightmarish predatory cannibals of HG Wells book. Very little of this comes across in the film. In fact, in the film the Eloi are neither decadent nor frail and at one point they actually seem to be working for a living. Perhaps the idea of class struggle was just not palatable for the Hollywood audience! Perhaps, the movie-makers thought that the viewers would prefer to have a nice little story about how the good, honest, hard-working Eloi who eke out a subsistence living from the soil are hunted by the evil orc-like Morlocks - in other words, a classic, good guys terrorised by nasty monsters plot! All in all the film was a rather bland and disappointing experience and clearly the screenplay was written by someone who despite having nothing worthwhile or original to say nevertheless had the arrogance to butcher HG Wells story.
Have a choctastic easter!
Alas, no chocolate for me as I don't eat it anymore! Still this hasn't stopped me buying chocolate Easter eggs for everyone else. Oddly, since I stopped eating chocolate, I have become more inclined to buy chocolate for other people! I go into a shop, and I see some chocolate and I think, "That looks yummy! Person X would like that!" and then I buy the chocolate and give it to Person X (the chocolate becomes an incentive for my team or it becomes a random gift for my housemate). I think that what we are seeing is some kind of transference. Maybe secretly, I want the chocolate. Oddly, when I see chocolate, I very rarely feel any desire to eat it myself. I always used to find chocolate irresistable but nowadays my conscious craving for chocolate is pretty much dead. However, given my tendency to buy choclate for other people, perhaps at an unconscious level I still crave it.
Meanwhile, I've been watching dvds again and hence it is time for my weekly film review. This week I am going to tell you about The Time Machine. In brief, The Time Machine is a rather forgettable film and the plot represents a considerable and quite unjustified departure from HG Wells novel. A
bout the only feature of the film which remains unaltered is the fact that the Morlocks are cannibalistic. It is unfortunate to find that the film glosses over the origins of the Morlocks and the Eloi. According to the film, the Morlocks are simply the descendants of those who went underground after the Moon disintegrated and fell to Earth. In the book, the Morlocks are descendants of a social underclass who were forced to toil on the subterranean machines by the ancesters of the Eloi. Over time the Eloi became accustomed to a life of ease and freed from the need to work and to struggle to survive, became decadent and frail while the Morlocks continued to evolve. Finally, the oppressive existence of Morlocks been transformed them into the nightmarish predatory cannibals of HG Wells book. Very little of this comes across in the film. In fact, in the film the Eloi are neither decadent nor frail and at one point they actually seem to be working for a living. Perhaps the idea of class struggle was just not palatable for the Hollywood audience! Perhaps, the movie-makers thought that the viewers would prefer to have a nice little story about how the good, honest, hard-working Eloi who eke out a subsistence living from the soil are hunted by the evil orc-like Morlocks - in other words, a classic, good guys terrorised by nasty monsters plot! All in all the film was a rather bland and disappointing experience and clearly the screenplay was written by someone who despite having nothing worthwhile or original to say nevertheless had the arrogance to butcher HG Wells story.
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I've seen and loved both versions.
I'm back now!