blue whale falling
It took a whale free-falling from 50,000 feet above sea level, experiencing firsthand acceleration-due–to-gravity while asking “what is my purpose in life?” to prod me to write another entry. The picture you have in mind may be utterly surreal. That’s exactly the word to describe the movie from which that scene of the philosophizing falling whale came from.
No it’s not a Charlie Kaufman or a Cameron Crowe film. In fact I don’t know who that brilliant-bordering-to-schizophrenic screenwriter is. If you happen to pass by Video City, you might want to check out Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
In this flick, a narcissistic president whose demeanor is a cross between that of a rock star and a futuristic prince governs the entire galaxy. It also features a super computer whose answer to the “ultimate question” is a numerical value—42. When asked by the galaxies population to expound on it, the computer rationalizes that they did not give an exact definition for the “ultimate question” hence it gave some sort of a, numerical estimate. If you don’t get it, so do I!
A controvertial fictional book whose title, Where God Went Wrong, was also fleetingly mentioned in the story.
But all these out-of-this-world stuff entered the picture when Vogons—eight-hundred-pound monsters with an IQ of an eight-year-old kid—annihilated planet earth to pave the way for the construction of a transportation system that makes use of applications of cutting edge quantum physics. Wheeew!
Deep!!!!
But wait a minute. This flick really is a comedy more than anything else. Despite being a sci-fi movie with tremendous philosophical undertone, it’s fraught with silly comedy in every scene.
If you’re having a hard time imagining how this film really is like, just go check it out for your self. But hold on tight to your sanity, because this movie’s psychotic brand of comedy might snatch it right at the get-go.
November 15th, 2005 at 10:52 am
Dude, I saw but never read it sa PowerBooks before the movie was done. Di ko alam kung related sila. I googled it and it showed another book with a weird title: The Restaurant At The End of The Universe by Douglas Adams…Cool!