Friday, September 16, 2005
sound of thunder...
watched "sound of thunder" today... it's a futuristic movie, showing how a guy made use of a time machine to make lots of money... one day... the time machine allowed rich ppl who can afford to travel back 65 million years ago to hunt for dinosaurs(in fact, the dinosaur was the same everytime)... however, there are 3 rules... the 2nd rule, never leave anything behind... the 3rd rule, never take anything... but it all boils down to the 1st rule... never do anything to alter history... once altered... even the killing of a butterfly(which was what happened)... the will be drastic change to the present world... which was what happened...
this show made me realise a few things...
1) the world had indeed gone very far from the prehistoric times... n that indeed... everything does happen for a reason... take for example what dr lucas had said... "the killing of a bee can cause a flower to miss the chance of pollination, and preventing another flower from growing, which will then cause the animal that had wanted to eat the flower to go without food, thereby causing it to starve and die. and the DNA of the particular animal to change or not to change, preventing a particular species to not be evolve, hence bringing about tremendous change."
from this, i tot... if japan hadnt been greedy and attack so many countries, including s'pore, we might still be a colony of the british and might not have developed been able to developed into what we are today...
2) referring to dr lucas again, he mentioned a dunno wat eqn which states that one can never be 100% certain of anything... even with the best prevention, what u are trying to prevent may still occur... so... never try to say sth for certain as there is also a room for exceptions... that's for certain...
3) to a prob... u might not be certain that a particular suggestion of way of solving might work... but by doing nth... u noe for certain that it'll not work... (by Sonia Rand, the scientist who invented the time machine)... chim ar... haha... i tot so... but it is true... if u dun do sth to solve a prob... try to hide it by sweeping it under the rug... the prob will still be there and it'll pop up again someday... by doing sth... there is still a possibility of might... so juz give it the benefit of the doubt... try it...
4) a short but impactful sentence said by a rich client wanting to travel through time to kill dinosaurs... "what's the point of being rich if u dun spend some money?" some may disagree to this... but i find it quite true... what's the point of having all the money in the world if u can't buy things that'll make u happy?? the purpose of money... is to make urself happy... besides for survival that is( which is also to make u contented)... so... shouldnt we get things that will make urself happy, get fulfilled intellectually, or juz be physically and mentally contented?? well... unless having all the money in the world makes you physically and mentally contented... well... then i have nth to say...
well... these are the 4 things that i've gotten by watching this movie... it's very scary... because it portrayed the image of what juz might have and could happen it the things that happened in the past didnt happen... from the excitment of being scared... i'm oso mentally contented... as i've learnt new things... a good way to relief exam stress... =)
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juz to make it complete... i shall juz add the synopsis of "the sound of thunder":
In the near future, time travel will be an exciting, if unpredictable, reality.
For a price, rich adventurers can stir their dormant killer instincts by booking safaris back to the Prehistoric age to hunt real, live dinosaurs.
There are only three essential rules: Don’t change anything in the past; don’t leave anything behind; and most important, don’t bring anything back. The slightest alteration might impact the existing course of evolution in ways that no one can imagine.
Based on a short story by award-winning author Ray Bradbury, A Sound of Thunder opens on the year 2055 in downtown Chicago where a very elite travel agency, Time Safari Inc., has cornered the lucrative time-traveling market with an exclusive prehistoric hunting package. Time Safari Inc. is the hottest ticket in town…. until the unthinkable happens.
Someone breaks the rules. And evolution runs off its tracks.
The changes come in waves. They start small, affecting the atmosphere and lower life forms first, then move rapidly up the food chain with each subsequent pass. Within 24 hours dramatic transformations appear throughout the city, spurring residents from curiosity to growing alarm and finally panic.
Thousands of fish beach themselves on the Lake Michigan shore. Plant life grows to monstrous proportions as if reclaiming some ancient tropical territory, bursting through the pavement with great sinuous roots, overturning cars in the street and engulfing entire buildings from inside and out. Then come the insects, fast-moving voracious organisms resembling giant roaches and locusts, streaming over everything in deadly hordes.
Species of predatory creatures suddenly emerge, in reptilian form, with rapier reflexes and surprisingly intelligent features, darkening the sky and running rampant through an increasingly hostile and terrifying landscape.
Only two people guess what might be happening: Dr. Travis Ryer (EDWARD BURNS), who leads the Time Safari expeditions into the past, and Dr. Sonia Rand (CATHERINE McCORMACK), the gifted physicist who developed the technology that makes these journeys possible. Time Safari CEO Charles Hatton (SIR BEN KINGSLEY) stole the largely untested technology from Rand and has been using it despite her warnings. Now, it appears her worst fears are realized.
It used to be our world. Now it’s theirs.
Threatened on all sides and fast running out of time, Ryer and Rand must find a way to go back and correct whatever catastrophic error was made, to save themselves and the human race from certain extinction. But as each new wave of change rolls forward from the Prehistoric past, their world continues to collapse all around them.
SpilLeD by b|uE at 11:42:00 pm
