1984

I recently finished the book 1984 by George Orwell.

I'm probably the only person of my era that has just read this book. Almost everyone I've spoken to has read this book, and even more people have read Animal Farm.

I was in a meeting when our CEO recommended that everyone read this book. So naturally I went out on and purchased the book on my kindle and started reading.

And I could not put the book down. Every few minutes I had - which are not many by the way - I was in 1984.

It's one of those books where you're hoping for the happy ending that you know if just not going to come. So why continue to read.

Many of the books I've read almost always have a "happy ending" if not happy at least an expected ending.

What intrigued me most about 1984 was the very scary fact that such thinking can and actually does exist, and I want to think that the only reason such an economic system has not evolved in our world is precisely because of the reason laid out as "failures" in the book.

Morally speaking I think most people of our era would abhor such conditions, but we seem to not realize that we are creating everyday the means by which 1984 came about. Everyday we are allowing "Big Brother" into our lives a little more each day. Everyday we are openly sharing with "Big Brother" everything they need to know about us. Every  swipe of a card, every text message, every post, every tweet, every BLOG! opens us up to "Big Brother's" vision.

What are you sharing with Big Brother these days.

Prometheus (2012)

I recently went to see the movie Prometheus. Yes I know I'm  a little late, but better late than never. I would say however in this case it was better never.

All movies have their appeal to different groups of people. I don't know what the appeal in this movie was for every man, including my husband, who said the movie was great. Every woman I talked to thought the movie was crap.

Now statistically speaking my sample population was very small so I'm not going to just go on these few opinions however the movie as a technical work of art was great!

Unlike other science fiction movies where everything in it appears to be unreal except the actors, Prometheus attempted to make the scenario feel real - like this could actually happen in our own time. Pretty far fetched given that space exploration programs are cutting back right?

Anyway Prometheus seemed so "out there" that it had to be imaginary and yet it played on some of the common questions that people ask themselves today. Folks you won't find the answer in space. What's disturbing about this movie is that it eludes to the fact that creatures created humans and not God. We as humans are so obsessed with meeting our maker that we will put on the screen all our ideas about who our maker is. There are some who will believe the screen and other who will just chalk this movie up to plain old fiction - some would say even really BAD fiction.

Never the less, a lot of money went into moving this film and although I can not say it was a great movie based on its content, it was one of the better made sci-fi flicks I've seen in a while. It "appeared" real on the screen, which made it convincing except for the fact that we're NOT made from some distant alien species. The special effects, camera angles, the sets were really convincing. At some moments I thought I was watching Star Wars, but then the stupid story line will wake me up and I'd realize I was watching Prometheus.