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!”
