I just got home from watching the new Bruce Willis movie - “Surrogates”. It’s not a bad film but it’s not a great film either. A good premise, reasonable plot and some decent action sequences. In the movie the majority of the world’s population lives through robot bodies, never physically leaving their own homes. Sadly, the movie practically shoves it’s luddite (caveman translation: “TECHNOLOGY = BAD, REAL THINGS = GOOD”) perspective down your throat. [SPOILER ALERT] At the end of the movie Bruce saves the world from itself artificial existence and destroys all of the surrogates. Roll credits. Cue epic song by Breaking Benjamin about being real. The irony here being that the song while proclaiming the benefits of “realness” was almost entirely played by computers. The drums are perfect, probably samples. The vocals have been auto-tuned. Not a note or rhythm is out of place in the entire song. I love getting up on a soapbox about the obnoxious perfection passing for “normal” in modern pop music. I could rant for days. It is a sad sign when a movie that is practically preaching the gospel of anti-technology doesn’t see anything wrong with crappy, machine-perfected music.
Does that bother anyone else or is it just me?
Everything
Yes, it bothers me too!
Daniel Machado
on Oct 07 @ 7:40 am