Future Panic
“Hope for the future! Hope for the future!! Are you kidding me? Have you even listened to the news even once this last six months? We’re headed for a major war. None of this sending our troops overseas. We’re going to need them here on our own soil!”
“Have you no faith. You teenagers are always so pessimistic. Never seeing that you have oh, I don’t know …….university to go to next year. And then there’s your sister wedding in the spring. I could go on, but I think you just might get it. Both of those things are in the future.”
“But mom, I’m talking about the future future. Not next year. I’ll just go to university for the parties ‘cause it won’t make a difference if I pass or fail. But I sure could have fun and hook up with some really sweet girls.”
“Well, while you’re having so much fun don’t forget about your grandmother’s 75th birthday the year after you start university. She’d be so disappointed if you were off partying. Now, here take the keys and make sure you drive carefully. You don’t want to mess up your future - or today. Love you, honey.”
“Love you more, mom. See you after school - in the future!”
Garvin gave his mom a hug, picked up his backpack and went to his very last high school class.
“Life’s under no obligation to give us what we expect.”
~ Margaret Mitchell
Listen to your thoughts
A good book
Trust hovers delicately
Intuition deep inside
Beginning in another dimension, a paradise of Greek mythology, Diana Prince, played by Gal Gadot, was born molded from clay by her mother, the Amazonian queen Hippolyta. She was the only child on an island created by the god Zeus for the race of Amazons, women of great athleticism, warrior prowess and beauty. She grew to love and be excited by the warrior skills - which her mother discouraged. Then Steve Trevor, played by Chris Pine, a World War One pilot fell through the barrier from that unknown dimension. His plane crashed in the ocean. Diana witnessed the crash and dove deep to save him. Their story builds and grows from this very strange meeting. Diana, with her shield and sword, returns with Steve to London on a mission to find and defeat Ares, played by David Thewlis. Steve, quite unsuccessfully tries to orient Diana to a life in grey London, the violence of World War ! and no gods or goddesses. Steve, a spy for the British, has a mission to get certain German intelligence to his superiors. Both of them have faith that their own realities and beliefs are correct. Faith in humanity and love is played out in this story. I was so pleased by the humour throughout this movie. The interplay between Chris Pine and Gal Gadot in their attempts at understanding each other’s reality got many laughs from all of us in the audience. But superheroes and war do require magic realism, sensational violence and ‘the good guys win’ so we were entertained superbly with bullets pinging off of shields, the Lasso of Truth and shiny arm protectors. It was just a good fun film.
