{"id":19,"date":"2007-03-29T17:40:58","date_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/29\/holy\/"},"modified":"2007-03-29T17:40:58","modified_gmt":"2007-03-30T00:40:58","slug":"holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/29\/holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy—-"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ok, so we finished Fast Cheap and Out of Control <\/em>eight minutes ago.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

As Robyn said one minute ago: “There are no words.”<\/p>\n

But I’m going to try anyway.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0So, things the movie does, it talks about humanity.\u00c2\u00a0 It talks about God.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0It talks about souls and consciousness.\u00c2\u00a0 Art.\u00c2\u00a0 Death.\u00c2\u00a0 Levels of being.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m not going into all of it right now, but let’s start with God.<\/p>\n

The four men were all versions of God.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The topiary man, he is the bumbling elderly gardener, who cannot quite control what happens to his creations in bad weather, and doesn’t have the seasons of his youth to repair the recent damage.\u00c2\u00a0 And there will be no replacement, when he finally dies.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The mole-rat man, he is the housebuilder, the anthil-watching deist sort of god.\u00c2\u00a0 He builds the habitat and gets a kick watching his little mole rats scurry around, their squeaks help him sleep.\u00c2\u00a0 Their brutality fascinates him, their adaptability, their interaction.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0The lion-tamer is the institutional god.\u00c2\u00a0 Organized religion.\u00c2\u00a0 The snapping of the whip and fire of a blankloaded revolver that keeps the mighty beast docile and dominated.\u00c2\u00a0 He has had close calls, but he has survived.\u00c2\u00a0 Even he is a degraded version of the old God, the movie star God, the God who could make a lion and tiger fight for film and entertainment.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

The robot maker, the clockworking god.\u00c2\u00a0 He is some fascinating mix, a Pandora and a Prometheus.\u00c2\u00a0 Willing to give life and mobility to machines that will eventually end life as we know it.\u00c2\u00a0 Wideyed, brilliant, godlike, a creator who embodies a sort of inspired recklessness.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0And all the people.\u00c2\u00a0 We are robots, mole rats, topiary, and lions.<\/p>\n

There’s some funny elemental thing happening here, too.\u00c2\u00a0 Four artists.\u00c2\u00a0 One works in metal, one wood, one earth, and one in flesh.\u00c2\u00a0 Strange crazy stuff.<\/p>\n

\u00c2\u00a0I don’t know what to think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ok, so we finished Fast Cheap and Out of Control eight minutes ago.\u00c2\u00a0 As Robyn said one minute ago: “There are no words.” But I’m going to try anyway. \u00c2\u00a0So, things the movie does, it talks about humanity.\u00c2\u00a0 It talks … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}