Watched movie Oblivion, a post apocalyptic love story, 3 times in a row recently. My brain & mind now performing advanced character analysis & deep plot analytics that derive even a deeper meaning from the talented writing & positive enduring love story idea presented in the movie! Spoiler Alert **
Real People to a Plurality of their Clones
Jack Harper, the protagonist of Oblivion, having been cloned thousands of times by the artificial intelligent TET structure orbiting the Earth after it destroyed the Moon, experiences recurrent flashbacks of past memories of his real life wife, Julia Harper, from their original lives pre-war or before the worldwide nuclear war destroyed most of Earth's biosphere. His clone wife Vika very annoyingly adherent to protocols & directives issued from the Sally the AI controlling the TET. The clones had their memories wiped by Sally the TET AI, but not completely, which gives the plot a deep & inspiring thread based on a real love that makes this movie exceptional & contributed to its success in a big way!
Vika Pupile Dilation ?
I do not like Vika's characters & wonder how the actress that played her had her pupils so dilated throughout filming. Usually that levels of pupil dilation associated with drug use or a very specific type of schizophrenia, not that I am at all suggesting an associating between that mental illness or the actress - Meg & I both just sincerely wonder how her eyes could be so dilated that the beautiful color of the iris only a thin border around the dilated black pupils of her eyes ? Is that a prosthetic contact lens or CGI effect applied ? If you know, we would love to read a comment with the correct factual information //
Infinite Love Inter-dimensionally Transcendent
Julia Harper's character exudes enduring loyalty & empathetic tenacious long lasting love for Jack that I find deeply moving or emotionally inspiring. If anything, emotional describes Oblivion & Olga the actress does a bang on excellent job of bringing those emotions to the movie, thankfully!
How Oblivion Was Made Amazing
Reading the wikipedia page about how they worked on Oblivion for more than 8 years & all of the complexity they went through to make it, spending about $120 million in the process, through the movie created more than $287 million in returns, more than doubling the capital investment, making Oblivion the movie a commercial success, but more than that an amazing depiction of enduring love between a man & a woman across time & space & even transcending the genetic borders of cloning Jack's character & wiping his memory; thousands of times over /
Advanced Movie Analytics
During my scientific inquiry studies at the University of Washington obtaining a Bachelors of Science of Environmental Science enabled me to take a Film Studies class that was one of the most interesting college course I got to experience. Understanding the relationship between movie budget, public engagement, marketing & advertising & what makes some movies more success than others was a $980,000 grant that my professor Dr. Constantine Behler was given by "Holywood Executives" to produce academic level insight about how to get a better or more consistent investment returns on movie production, where different investors shell out tens or hundreds of millions to make movie content, expecting a good return on their investment!
Lots of Movies Lose Money
Many movies fail, returning much less money in the box office worldwide than what was spent to make the movie. We started this course with analysis of a Honda CRV commercial, a 30 second clip that Honda's spent more than $20 million making. Every aspects down to the finest detail, like the reflection off the bezel glass of the drivers wrist watch & reflections off the drivers sunglass lenses, all designed to tell you the viewer of that CRV commercial a subtext message "If you buy a Honda CRV, you will become cooler & better like the man depicted in the commercial" - thankfully movies are not restrictive to such commercial promotions of products to be consumed, through Oblivion did a good job of selling future electric motorcycles like the one that Jack was riding in the movie, unbranded, which looks like a Brammo unit from the 2012 era, customized heavily, or possibly based an Zero electric motorcycle too, idk. If sex sells movies, they did a tasteful job of depicting intercourse between Jack & Vika, & later Jack & Julia. The first sex scene goes down in a sky pool in their hyper wealthy style elaborate & super cool nearly all glass house. I would absolutely love to live in an elevated home of a similar design, though would never want to spend that much on housing or the extreme ongoing operating costs of such a structure; way to many dollars per day // I look at everything material in this way, like an accountant.
Dialog Excellent from Poetry & Love //
Jack & Beech's recitation of the book "Lays of Ancient Rome, by poet Thomas Babington Macaulay" added profound & deeper meaning to the interplay between Beech & Jack where Beech was trying to get to the inner core of Jack's love for Julia so as to break him free of the evil lies the TET had embedded it Jacks brain during the cloning & brain wiping process. The way they unfold the profound truth that the scabs are actually a human resistance brings an inspirational tone about the drive & ambition that people have to overcome difficulties in life, even as refugees or people subjected to the most horrendous cruelty, like survivors of the Holocaust. I have a deep respect for the state of Israel as a Christian & this strikes a cord with my Faith in Christ Jesus, my savior who was also a jewish carpenter in real life! I was hiking near some new construction on Squawk Mountain, Issaquah, Wa. USA yesterday morning for fitness & exercise & was reminded of how all the construction workers, like truckers, are the unsung heroes of society - building housing that people make homes in with their families, like that beautiful black lake cabin depicted in Oblivion where jack sent Julia to protect her from his final move to cleverly sabotage the TET with Beech in the recovery stasis pod containing a very compact fuel cell hydrogen boosted nuclear fusion weapon that ends of completely destroying the TET, a move inspired by the story of Horatious from the Macauly's 1842 book <-Click Link, that Jack recites to the 3D electro-mechanical display projection of the Sally, the AI "God" of the TET right before killing himself & Beech like a Trojan horse in order to eliminate Sally & the TET from existence with a nuclear fusion explosion, depicted with excellent CGI & sky scenes of the complete destruction of the TET as viewed from the Earth looking towards the sky; very beautiful to look at!
Visual Effects Extraordinary
More than 800 scenes were enhanced with advanced computer art processing known as computer generated imagery. A lot of the film consists of a mix of different camera captures of the persistent sunset colors of the sky in northern Iceland & cloudscapes from other locals projected onto a huge 500 by 44 ft - 270 degree circular screen with 21projectors sending imagery & lighting to create a filming bubble in which to record the cool futuristic home Jack & Vika live in & his exceptional custom aluminum dragonfly inspired aircraft, a design based on the Bell 47 helicopter vehicle, mounted to a blue screen gimbal to record cockpit scenes of Jack & of Jack & Julia flying together. The used an RC version of this aircraft from many other views of it flying. Its a visual feast, especially the in flight fighting sequence between Jacks bubble-ship & 3 of the "TET Drones" through an Icelandic river canyon with very step rock walls on either side. Again the visual effects & photographic teams did a spectacular job mapping & CGI tuning these real life landscape features for that amazing dogfight sequence.
Music Out of this World by M83
I might even watch Oblivion one more time for a 4th pass since the music by M83 was outstanding! Beautiful & dynamics with orchestral elements blended with EDM & beautiful vocals, a musical wonderland of amazing song tracks, even standalone one of the best albums ever made! Blending genres of musical performance & mixing them with such an extended dynamic ranges makes this film & its music a feast for the ears to send signals to the brain for really great enjoyment!
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