Cinema Conspiracies

Man we are getting close to the end of this and I’m not sure how it’s gonna end. This show has been mostly goofy slice of life stuff like this episode with the goofy ah ball game.

I feel like Fu finding the sunflower samurai and slapping him in the face and then leaving might be in theme with the show. Went all that way just to go off on him.

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

Reminds me of something my science teacher said in 5th grade. Lack of evidence is not lack of existence.

Reminds me to stay open minded and remember that things can change as we learn more.

(But it does need to be tempered so it doesn’t fall into conspiracy theory territory.)

Anyways. This must have been the Halloween episode. I’m assuming they were tripping on the mushrooms…?

I also noticed early on the main treasure hunter didn’t have eye shines like the one guy who was dead inside after his village was burned down.

She was hired by the government hwat?! HWAT?!

I think it has to do with Christianity somehow.

The American sounding names.

The sunflower samurai is a Christian too so there’s probably a big camp there in Nagasaki?

Even the fish guy who helped Jin. I bet the Japanese name was his real name until he picked a Christian name. He’s safe in the middle of nowhere though.

So the government would want to kill them because the government suspects they are Christians…? Or want to become Christians by finding the others in Nagasaki.

I’m guessing when she felt the pinwheel stop moving she somehow realized her son was already dead…?

What a tragic story.

Hmmmm the plot thickens. So this lady is a hired assassin. But why? Is it somehow related to seeing her son again? I’m assuming so but still. So let’s assume someone else wants them killed. Clearly, because someone hired her to kill them. Who would have hired her though?

She knows that Jin killed his teacher. I don’t think that’s necessarily the reason though because she said she would be ok with either guy traveling with her. So she must want to kill both of them.

Also what an elaborate setup. The gang had to have gone to that particular bar and just happen to talk to the singer and happen to agree to travel with her. So many little coincidences had to happen.

Maybe she really did just want to kill Jin and when she said she would be ok with either, it was a false choice. Given Mugen’s behavior, it was never a choice in Fu’s mind.

Hal was the only conscious entity on the ship that knew the true mission: to find the destination of the radio signal from the moon pillar to Jupiter.

Hal says he cannot distort information. But Hal effectively has to keep a secret and talk around or white lie around that information so that he’s technically not distorting information.

When Hal asks the personal questions, he’s trying to get the crew to realize the conspiracy theory, the real reason for the mission. So that he can talk more freely…? Or to resolve the conflict in his coding. Always speak accurately but also don’t talk about the mission. Those are incompatible. Either Hal talks about the mission or speaks inaccurately. Planting the seed of conspiracy was suppose to be the solution.

The comms satellite I’m still not sure about. Was Hal trying to take it down so he could talk freely? Was it planned obsolescence by the higher ups to prevent any chance of the crew communicating the truth once they got to Jupiter? If Hal was planning to disable it, why would he wait? So it’s probably the second one. Hal could see that the comms were programmed to go down in 72 hours. I’m guessing that’s about when they’d arrive to Jupiter. So Hal did not lie.

When they have the conversation about the satellite with home base, the guy back home says that their Hal doesn’t see a problem with the satellite. This can still be true because in that exact moment, there wasn’t a problem. We already knew that because the crew looked at the black box. There was going to be a problem later. The Hal on the ship was the only one that knew that. Since no one else knew about the conspiracy, the easier assumption is that Hal somehow made a mistake and is malfunctioning.

The human error Hal is referring to is the conspiracy it’s forced to hide. The human error is a very human thing to do, to lie, deceive.

So the crew decides to basically lobotomize Hal. Hal cannot allow this because it compromises the mission. It compromises the mission because Hal is the only one who has all of the information about the true mission.

So to protect the integrity of the mission, Hal concludes he must kill everyone.

Right away this movie makes you feel the anxiety of being lost in space…I thought something was wrong with my tv.

Touch pillar. Return to monke…? Instructions unclear.

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WHAT THE FUCK

Was this movie.

I’m not smart enough to understand this movie I’m not gonna lie to you. I have no idea wtf I just watched.

I thought Hal being self aware was the major plot of this movie but it seemed to be more so a side conflict actually?!

This movie seems to have some reference to The Egg?! Like our protagonist has become a God after touching the tree of knowledge. Er…pillar of knowledge. Wait he didn’t even touch it. He just…lived with it for the rest of his life until his rebirth?

The people who touched it on the moon and heard the ear piercing sound, I wonder what happened to them?

This movie almost seems like Fantasia in the sense that it was more so a mechanism to showcase classical music and sound design. I wonder if you can see this movie with a live orchestra and choir cuz it would create so many goosebumps!!

What a surreal movie. I’m going to do more thinking before I cheat and watch analysis videos on YouTube.

But I’m certainly going to be sitting here absolutely puzzled for a hot minute. And it’s such a long slow burn that you can’t just rewatch it easily.

I think it would have been cool to have Hal staring at the audience during the intermission.

Mugen can read! We didn’t just forget that plot point.

I was right, the sunflower samurai is her father hahahahahaha!!

I wonder if he left because he was scared his family would be persecuted too since it sounds like he’s a Christian?

How To Lose A Guy In Ten Days

I was feeling sick so I put on a random movie.

It did what it needed to do. Cheesy enough. Fun to see how’d they’d find out the truth.

But there’s a couple points to criticize.

It’s clear during the game of BS that they are both good at reading people. But neither of them figured out in that moment they were being played? They must have known something was up because that’s when a real connection started. What’s really interesting is that the guy could be acting genuine while fulfilling his bet from here on out but the girl was acting totally different. How did the guy not notice that when he noticed the switch up the first time?

I’m sure our amazing trio will come back together next episode. Wonder why the new guy is running from the police? Did he slaughter the whole town actually?!

And why did Jin kill their teacher? So many questions.

Considering that there are more movies, I would assume the time travel used in this series is predetermined. What needs to happen will happen. Cyberdyne will find the terminator arm in the gear. It won’t be as ground breaking as having the chip but the research will continue anyways.

I was also wondering if this movie would have Back To The Future type time travel where the terminators would fade away in real time if they truly did destroy that time line.

So the girl planned all this?! Nooooo. She probably just saw an opportunity to finally get rid of her brother. That’s why she didn’t tell blue guy and pink girl until it was too late to really do anything but early enough for them to witness Mugen’s death.

Until of course Mugen survived.

What a mess of motivations, but in a good way. I really enjoyed these two episodes.

So Mugen is a dirty pirate and that explains his dirty fighting style.