After writing my review for the Newman documentary, by Jon Fox,..
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2198063/
... and thinking it over, I realized that this movie (Vision, Blind Spot) - in its own way - is duplicating the other movie's documentation of the struggle between sovereign men and women who find themselves "bucking something much larger themselves" - in Newman's case, the Patent Office and in this case, the NSA. Since agencies exist under the umbrella of the federal government, and since the US of A is defined in its federal codes and regulations as a corporation (since ~1872), the analogy which I'm drawing here between these two films makes it very easy to respect the intention of this film's creators regardless of their quality of execution (as is so aptly decried by just about all of the other reviews of Visions - Blind Spot. Maybe it's just as well that this movie's creators didn't do a more "slick job", for I know what happens to those movies...
Take Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070248/
It has one lone seagull bucking the seagull establishment and he ends up training a few others to live outside the flock. That movie was never distributed very well - in my opinion - as an effective technique to keep it from becoming more popular. It's book, from which the movie was taken from, was far more popular. The "Karate Kid" series of movies came out shortly afterward promoting a more violent approach to settling conflicts and making conflict resolution the main theme of life. I guess that appeals more to people then does the pursuit of yoga which the Jonathan Seagull character had been pursuing.
My point is that you can blame the movie for being not worth watching, or you can blame our culture for producing failed movies which have a good message worth watching if only it had been made different, or promoted and distributed differently, .... yada, yada, yada..... fill in your own excuse for bad-mouthing any movie's lack of this, that or the other thing, for it amounts to the same complaint, that...
We don't deserve anything better than what we've got.
Unless, of course, we do something about it. Prayer is a good start, but has to be followed up by some action. It doesn't have to be flamboyant action. But action nonetheless.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2198063/
... and thinking it over, I realized that this movie (Vision, Blind Spot) - in its own way - is duplicating the other movie's documentation of the struggle between sovereign men and women who find themselves "bucking something much larger themselves" - in Newman's case, the Patent Office and in this case, the NSA. Since agencies exist under the umbrella of the federal government, and since the US of A is defined in its federal codes and regulations as a corporation (since ~1872), the analogy which I'm drawing here between these two films makes it very easy to respect the intention of this film's creators regardless of their quality of execution (as is so aptly decried by just about all of the other reviews of Visions - Blind Spot. Maybe it's just as well that this movie's creators didn't do a more "slick job", for I know what happens to those movies...
Take Jonathan Livingston Seagull...
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070248/
It has one lone seagull bucking the seagull establishment and he ends up training a few others to live outside the flock. That movie was never distributed very well - in my opinion - as an effective technique to keep it from becoming more popular. It's book, from which the movie was taken from, was far more popular. The "Karate Kid" series of movies came out shortly afterward promoting a more violent approach to settling conflicts and making conflict resolution the main theme of life. I guess that appeals more to people then does the pursuit of yoga which the Jonathan Seagull character had been pursuing.
My point is that you can blame the movie for being not worth watching, or you can blame our culture for producing failed movies which have a good message worth watching if only it had been made different, or promoted and distributed differently, .... yada, yada, yada..... fill in your own excuse for bad-mouthing any movie's lack of this, that or the other thing, for it amounts to the same complaint, that...
We don't deserve anything better than what we've got.
Unless, of course, we do something about it. Prayer is a good start, but has to be followed up by some action. It doesn't have to be flamboyant action. But action nonetheless.