My Scientific Mind Compels Me To Tell You To Avoid Knowing
Sunday, March 29, 2009Just came back from the film Knowing. Here's a quote from one of the "scientists" early on in the film:
My scientific mind is telling me to have nothing more to do with this...
And that ridiculous line is, for me, representative of how utterly stupid this film was. Margret and David, whose opinions I respect, gave this film 4 stars and 3.5 stars respectively. And that is why I shall never listen to their reviews again.
I'd try to explain this laughable and confused movie but FlickFilosopher does it so well:
It's like this: Imagine that the nitwits who wrote those preposterous Left Behind apocalyptic end-times fantasies decided to try their pens at something X-Files-y... or what they thought would be X-Files-y. It might look a lot like this alternately dull and unintentionally hilarious blend of self-important tripe: half science fiction as people who don't understand science fiction see it, and half pseudo-religious nonsense that thinks it's comforting and doesn't realize how downright creepy it is. Not creepy in a good way, of course: accidentally and inadvertently creepy by way of people who think the ideas that We Are Being Watched Over and Everything Happens For A Reason are reassuring and soothing.
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I'm a scientific. No real scientific will step away for a mistery like the one suggested in that movie. Solving it would became the reason to breath for most of us.
The movie try to show us as closed minding, untolerated with misteries. But real scientifics have very open minds and love misteries, they are our reason to be. Without misteries we will be unemployed and life will became very boring.
I have met before people who think we hate misteries, they are complete wrong. We love them and we live to solve them. After all, behind a mistery there usually are a hundred more. We just don't accept that we know anything, that include religion stuff. That's why scientific are better agnostics that believers or even atheist.
For examples, Darwin was agnostic.