For a
movie made when my father was 1 years old The Day The Earth Stood
Still looked pretty damned good. I decided to check this out on
Amazon. I've heard of this movie for years and even knew what the
robot, Gort, looked like from posters, pictures, and random things.
But this movie was not about what I thought it was. It was actually
far more thought provoking and insightful than the “robot comes to
Earth and humanity fights back” tale I expected.
The
world gets information that something is moving fast around Earth but
nobody is seriously worried about it until a spaceship lands in the
middle of a baseball field in Washington D.C. The military shows up
and this alien named Klaatu gets out. He removes a small device from
his jacket and it springs open with spikes and a soldier pops his ass
in the shoulder with a bullet. This big ass robot named Gort starts
disintegrating guns until Klaatu calms his shit. Klaatu is like “That
was a gift for your president that would've let him study life on
other planets but fuck it now. I'm hurt!”
Klaatu
heals fast, is older than he looks, and has a message to spread to
the world. Of course the government wants the information for
themselves and talks about how not every nation is part of the United
Nations. Klaatu is getting impatient and ends up escaping and heading
to a hotel type house something or other. He meets some nice people
and a young kid. Within one day his mom leaves him with Klaatu who
they were speculating may be a criminal or an FBI agent. He walks
around with diamonds. They go to check out the ship which the
military is trying to get open even though a laser shooting robot is
inside!
This
pretty much boils down to we, humans, are making stronger and more
dangerous weapons and need to calm our shit because we will
eventually end up on the radar of way more advanced species and they
will wreck our shit. Gort is a robot that polices planets because
species don't know how to do it properly themselves. The music in
this movie was really cool and weird. It was a fast 90 minute film
and you should check it out if you never had.
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