Review of Tomorrowland -- Movie

There are two wolves- one is evil and one is good. The two are fighting. Which one wins?

The one you feed

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and girls, welcome to tomorrow land. A land where dreamers go and invent some new and very interesting things. Frank Walker is a young boy who goes to the 1964 New York World Fair to showcase the jet pack he has created (which by the way "technically flies"), so that he can win the 50 dollar prize money.

He is turned away but not before a young girl, Athena, hands him a pin. He follows her and a few others and is transported to a new world, a fantastic world, with technology from the future.

Now coming back to the present, a teenage girl named Casey, breaks into a NASA base station,which is up for demolition, and fries all the cranes. The next day her dad, who is a NASA engineer, tells her that new cranes would be coming in soon and demolition will take place as scheduled. When she goes again that night to break in she gets caught and is jailed.

She makes bail, and in her personal effects she finds a pin. When she touches it she is transported to the world we had seen before. It doesnt last long and she tries to find more about the place, and if she can go there for real.

From there she ends up meeting Athena, and finally Frank, who isn't so young anymore. A gang of robots follow them and try to kill them. They escape, and a man, a robot and a teenage girl make their way back to Tomorrow land. Who were those robots? Why did Athena give Casey the pin? And whats all this talk about an apocalypse? How is Casey connected to all of this?

The first half is quite long, but the story picks up after the intermission. Also the editing is a little rough. Raffey Cassidy who plays Athena is absolutely wonderful. The plastic smile on the robot's face gives you the jitters. There is also a small cameo by Keegan-Michael Key, which to his true nature will make you laugh.

You get this a wonderful overwhelming feeling when you watch the movie. Its visually spectacular and the story line fantastic. The sequence with the "The Eiffel Tower" and the rocket launch, just one word or rather sentiment, WOW.

One of the realizations you get while watching this movie is that we need more people asking questions and dreaming and have an active imagination. And that's what Disney is about. Imagination.

RIP Justice

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It super cedes all other courts.

~Mahatma Gandhi

Aruna Shanbaug has just died after fighting a long battle, 42 years long. She wasn't the only one who died.. justice too is dead. Without a battle. Not even a fight.

I am not writing about Aruna or nirbhaya or anyone in particular. I am writing about each and every one of you. All of us humans who are considered the most civilized.

So what do we do when we read about a murder or a rape case in the newspaper.  Gossip about it. Write a Facebook status about it. Hope it gets likes and shares. Or even tweet. The damn audacity we have to do that.

And yes we do that, why? Because we know somewhere inside that justice is dead. Heroes don't get a happy ending. Happy endings are reserved for the villains.  Fairy tales, movies..all point us to the wrong direction that justice prevails in the end. Fairy tales, the ones we read in our childhood. Every fairy tale has a hero and a villain. The fight between good and evil continues till the end and finally the hero is able to save everyone from the villain and they all live happily ever after. There is no such phrase as happily ever after for Aruna or nirbhaya or the hundreds or thousands of others.

We all know its true, but we have to survive so we suppress this thought and continue living our lives the way it is. We don't want to bring about a change. The justice system or the society has failed us. But who constitute of this? We do. We forget that we as an entire population are much stronger. We together can bring change to the justice system or society as a whole. We not I. But are "We" willing?  

I know you are saying "Whats the use?". You would have said and heard this phrase many times in your lives.

Exactly..what am I even doing writing this.

Whats the use.

RIPJustice.

Lets just say a silent prayer to all future victims, and I hope not, someone who might be very close to you.

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.

~Haile Selassie