War of the World's (2005)

Watched ‘War of the Worlds’ (2005) on Netflix.

Sci-fi by Steven Spielberg based on a novel by H G Wells.

Lots of sound of fury. But significance absent.

The same old fear of the unknown and never ending chasing and dodging dressed up in new gear. 

Giant metallic tripods tall as skyscrapers with probes, who annihilate everything in their way and drink human blood. All of US army tanks and airplanes cannot destroy them and when they fall of their own in the end, it is because of microbes in our blood, for which their immune system is unprepared. 

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Usually dystopian movies, movies of catastrophe are a pain to watch. Grey and dull and desolate and squalid. 

This one has some interesting litter. Debris from plane crash. Engine and wheels and the body with all the seats intact and wings spanning the large area...the kind of debris you haven't seen before. 

But in the end it seemed pointless. Without meaning and purpose and motives explained. 

It was just one long chase. Running running running and then, just like that, being saved, without having done anything about it, without fighting, without even understanding what it was for, what just happened, what hit them…

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Lines noted…

‘What's the matter?’

‘Got a splinter’

‘Where did you get it?’

‘On your porch railing’

‘Lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place’

‘I have been around death plenty. I used to drive an ambulance in the city. You know the people that make it? The ones that don't flatline before the hospital? It's the ones that keep their eyes open. They keep looking at you. Keep thinking. They're the ones who survive’

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