Pretty damn powerful. Especially when you consider that most people just blindly believe everything they hear on the news. I could go into detail but I wont as this is supposed to be a short paragraph and not a fifty page essay.
To put things in perspective, two days ago someone posted a picture of a dress online. They posed the question "Is this dress black and blue or white and gold?". The internet is in an uproar because no one can agree on what the colors are. This dress appeared on the news channels twenty four hours after posting. If you haven't heard about it you probably do not have TV OR internet.
The entire world knew about this dress and it's problems within twenty four hours. That, is powerful.
Jupiter Ascending
So trying for something positive today.
Saw the movie "Jupiter Ascending" a while ago. The action sequences were very well done and the CGI was pretty masterful but...
The movie starts with a Tragic Backstory (capital letters because trope) about how the protagonist's father was murdered and her mother illegally immigrated from Russia. Jupiter (named for her father's favorite planet) was born on a ship in the middle of the ocean. In a dirty railroad car that was stacked for shipping because as mentioned her mother was immigrating illegally. Why she felt she needed to sneak over the border when this woman was a well off college professor I will never know. Actually yes I do. For character building, but there were other ways it could have been done without the whole Tragic Backstory thing.
Fast forward and Jupiter is a maid with her mother and aunt, who work for this man who seems to be her mother's brother in his cleaning service. Despite being very poor and cleaning toilets for a living, Jupiter's makeup is always perfect.
Que the "Young woman who is Different From All the Other Girls" and "Not Pretty but Not Ugly" and "Actually Yeah Pretty" set of tropes with a side of "I Hate My Boring Life". Not having perfect skin is not a character flaw, for future reference.
Fast forward, she almost gets kidnapped by aliens. Gets saved by Mysterious Hot Stranger in a thrilling action sequence. Finds out she is aPrincss From Another World The Chosen One Somehow the reincarnation of the Queen of the universe. How this is possible is pretty glossed over in a way that only those who don't understand how genetics work would accept.
Now, the movie from here on out is going to be split into three near identical arcs. Which go as follows: Jupiter is kidnapped by one of the children of the woman she is supposed to be reincarnated from. She almost makes a terrible decision to give up legal ownership of the earth (which she has???Somehow???) to said person. Mysterious Hot Stranger man stars in a ten minute rescue seen doing the impossible that as, acknowledged frequently by other characters, would kill anyone else.
Rinse and repeat.
End of the movie Jupiter goes back to her boring earth life in poverty (despite being Queen of the Universe and being able to choose to live anywhere else) and lives a happy life moonlighting with Mysterious Hot Stranger whom she is now dating. You know, instead of using her new found power to try and stop the frequent *genocide of entire planets to create fountain of youth water*.
Why the rest of the royalty doesn't just go ahead and harvest Earth with her on it, or the one person who knew she existed kept his mouth shut about it since he wanted her dead we will never know.
Saw the movie "Jupiter Ascending" a while ago. The action sequences were very well done and the CGI was pretty masterful but...
The movie starts with a Tragic Backstory (capital letters because trope) about how the protagonist's father was murdered and her mother illegally immigrated from Russia. Jupiter (named for her father's favorite planet) was born on a ship in the middle of the ocean. In a dirty railroad car that was stacked for shipping because as mentioned her mother was immigrating illegally. Why she felt she needed to sneak over the border when this woman was a well off college professor I will never know. Actually yes I do. For character building, but there were other ways it could have been done without the whole Tragic Backstory thing.
Fast forward and Jupiter is a maid with her mother and aunt, who work for this man who seems to be her mother's brother in his cleaning service. Despite being very poor and cleaning toilets for a living, Jupiter's makeup is always perfect.
Que the "Young woman who is Different From All the Other Girls" and "Not Pretty but Not Ugly" and "Actually Yeah Pretty" set of tropes with a side of "I Hate My Boring Life". Not having perfect skin is not a character flaw, for future reference.
Fast forward, she almost gets kidnapped by aliens. Gets saved by Mysterious Hot Stranger in a thrilling action sequence. Finds out she is a
Now, the movie from here on out is going to be split into three near identical arcs. Which go as follows: Jupiter is kidnapped by one of the children of the woman she is supposed to be reincarnated from. She almost makes a terrible decision to give up legal ownership of the earth (which she has???Somehow???) to said person. Mysterious Hot Stranger man stars in a ten minute rescue seen doing the impossible that as, acknowledged frequently by other characters, would kill anyone else.
Rinse and repeat.
End of the movie Jupiter goes back to her boring earth life in poverty (despite being Queen of the Universe and being able to choose to live anywhere else) and lives a happy life moonlighting with Mysterious Hot Stranger whom she is now dating. You know, instead of using her new found power to try and stop the frequent *genocide of entire planets to create fountain of youth water*.
Why the rest of the royalty doesn't just go ahead and harvest Earth with her on it, or the one person who knew she existed kept his mouth shut about it since he wanted her dead we will never know.
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It's hard to write on this thing when I have zero interest in maintaining it. Maybe I should start doing book reviews or something. At least then I'd actually have something to write about. Gotta get that grade. Can't eat it, can't spend it, can't use it to stay warm but damn if that letter don't determine your worth as a human being.
Another generic post
Apathy is truly homework's greatest enemy. I used to stress over getting that perfect A, but now I'm really starting not to care. Life isn't grades and tests and papers. Life is love and family. Life also requires me to get those perfect A's so I can get a degree and *hopefully* get a job that makes more than minimum wage. Which, despite the intent of which the law was written, is NOT a living wage. Why should people who put boxes on shelves make 15$ an hour? So they can feed their families and pay their bills.
Food yay
Making some noodles. Pretty sure my blood is 90% pasta sauce at this point. The remaining 10% is most likely bitterness. So my blood is tomatoes and bitterness. Kinda like a bad costume job for a zombie movie.
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