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Oblivion

Vladimir Dietrich · April 27, 2020 ·8 min read

If you haven't watched Oblivion, don't touch this post. It will talk about the film, they call it a spoiler.♥️

Oblivion, the film, allows for a few ways to see it. Most likely the fault of our eye, not so much the film.

1. The towering glazed canopy with a floating pool with a glass floor could not have been designed to be "ugly". It seems to reflect a kind of human dream.

2. Did there need to be disgrace under this "dream canopy"? A "contaminated" environment, "inferior" beings living in misery hunted like rebels? It seems so.

Some message may be being passed.

3. The woman doesn't go out into the field. She stays at home - "safe". This reminds me of the concern with the "uteruses of women" before the premiere of the first locomotive, which went at a dazzling, for the time, 60km/h. The news is real, from the time. Machismo persists, still, in the film.

I'm still watching.

From what I remember,

4. Love saves everything. 5. They will live on the ground, with nature, with love.

In this sense, the canopy and the wife inside seem like an artificial relationship. Did the canopy need to be the most "beautiful" representing a bad relationship? Maybe it needed to: compensate for the emptiness with a great work. Something along these lines.

It will be possible to go further.

The company - giant - deceives the "employees" always promising something a few weeks away. Then it repeats the cycle. It perpetuates a "nothing": its own destruction and contamination, the same one, not without irony, that builds the dream canopy.

I'm publishing before I finish watching.

6. The destroyed moon should not be just a supporting character. Long shot: if the moon represents love, love was destroyed.

7. After the dreamlike kiss under the pool, his muse, like a mermaid, goes down. It is love calling "down from the canopy: to the ground".

8. The insistence on "are you and Jack an effective team?" is not a supporting character. A corporate mantra, it seems to be. Perhaps the question is to hide the real objective behind so many effective tasks, not to question the effectiveness per se. But the effectiveness seems a little robotic. Per se.

Upon arriving at his paradise hideout on earth, with plants, crystal clear water, a friendly fish, a flannel shirt, Led Zeppelin on vinyl, and a basketball court, the phrase:

9. "I'm going to miss this place". When the couple "finish the mission". This perhaps great message, will it be the greatest? I call it the paradox of total technology, something like that. When we really have nuclear fusion (our own sun, anywhere), master chemistry and biology, maybe - I said maybe - we will realize that we were only little friends of the planet while it "was bigger than us". While it was a "uterus". If we don't need it - even if always with kindness and gratitude, even with longing - wouldn't we relegate it to the background like we do with piano and other old things? This confronts us with a very heavy question, which asks "if we really like nature?". Mosquito repellent is just a hint, the real answer, if it ever appears, is immense.

10. "It would have been great", soon after "I'm going to miss this place", questions technology. Alchemy. In fact, we could bring this question back to before agriculture, when we were still quasi-mating because of how related we were to nature. "Before we bit the apple", experienced scientists note that the bitten apple would represent this split of man from life in nature (before surplus agriculture and current religions).. "It would have been great" may also just represent fear of the new. Simple as that: real fear. Desire to return, before and instead of changing.

11. "Our job is not to remember..." "Remember?". This sentence interestingly shows that you should only remember what is of interest. Not the more distant past. Perhaps: the brainwashing that managing can bring: remember our mission and values (forget the rest).

12. "I can't protect you", says the wife and co-worker when Jack goes down with his muse. The fear of fleeing the company's rules, or a type of bureaucracy, without room for improvisation. Curiously, the button that disconnects and makes the mission "informal", "offline" is the only red button among all the white ones. In the cold war, the "bad" things were red (in American films, at least). Therefore, "being online would be bad (red)". When turned off, the red light goes out. Informal with love, they go down.

13. The fear of "what's down there" is sincere. The wife in the canopy genuinely shudders when Jack is "down there". Perhaps it would be like "good people" shuddering at what happens in the streets of the periphery, in a Brazil. But I forced this analogy.

14. Love pierces the brainwashing of large corporations. Jack remembers. Like neutrinos, like X-rays. Love pierces, unstoppable. It is the regurgitation of the bitten apple, I really dare to propose. Return to communion with nature. Abandon the corporation. Technology. Return to the womb from the point of view of DNA (but not so far to the bacterial broth, right? Up to the wild era is fine).

Wow:

15. The technological wife - from the canopy - cries when she sees Jack with his love-muse. Through the lens of the ship that is (was?) going to save Jack. "Save". What "saving" is begins to solidify. "Wow", because it would be interesting to explain the crying of the technological wife, of the glazed canopy. What does she want? Intriguing to think.

16. Fighting against ourselves is, really, the great fight. The us of the exemplary employee glazed canopy, the us of love - who rediscovers the truth, who through love penetrates like a neutrino in the technological corporate brainwashing. You and you. "Regurgitate" the bite of the apple, in the context of this film. Rediscover, instead of being expelled, from paradise. Drop technology. Effectiveness. Drop the glass pool over the clouds. Stop treating those below as contagious mosquitoes. In fact, as if they weren't human (but they are!).

17. The wife of tower 52 (Jack was from tower 49) doesn't notice the difference between the Jacks. I'm going to force it: that's how we feel, a little, with the automated treatments in email spams, by telephone, by message. They try to call us by name, but they barely know our essence. Guilty? Nobody.

18. Jack invites the technological wife from glass tower 52 down. She genuinely has a curiosity, but like in the best iso-9000 production, with guaranteed predictability, she rejects and feels uncomfortable with the subject. "It's against the rules". Her brainwashing was with very strong bleach - or there was no love neutrino. She goes back to the room. "Safe".

Jack and his muse go to the lake house. Jack says it's just a copy of the real Jack. The muse says that Jack had promised a lake house. To get fat and old together.

19. Love could also be considered a machine. Repeating machine: lake house, 70s vinyl, basketball, baseball. Who is more legitimate? Automation via love, automation via technology. I don't know!

20. Jack calms the machine. The human-hunting drone. "Oooouuu" - as one would do with a horse. And the drone, agitated with the crowd around, calms down. Jack fixes and understands the technology in depth. He is a technical engineer. But he didn't understand underlying intentions. The people on the ground understand.

21. The painting of the girl (hair like the muse, therefore, the muse) dragging herself towards the house cannot be just a supporting character. "Go back home". To paradise. Regurgitate the bitten apple. Get out of technology, whose villain, not by coincidence, is called "tet" (almost "tec").

22. The kiss before the kamikaze-but-saving mission. The kiss. Saliva, feeling. Non-tinder, non-whatsapp. Dirty, sweaty. Non-technological, without super clean glass. Could our "DNA" - itself, yes! - speak? Could it scream even without vocal cords? Does it sense its extinction? Its change via crispr-cas9. Its alteration. Video games, less and less sweat - even before messing with DNA. Cleanliness, distance. Nature turning into a zoo. Can our DNA understandably kick? "I don't want to die", it would scream, perhaps in the form of arts, since it acts without vocal cords? Note that even if it's true - the DNA screams - it doesn't mean, at least not automatically, that it's correct. There is more chance of it being a selfish self-preservation, that is, without thinking about the "next DNA" to which it would yield its existence. I went far, just ignore it.

23. The recording of the original Jack's original mission. The machine "tet" (tec!) used the real head of the mission at the time to create a cloned boss. With the same "good morning", "what a wonderful day", "is everything okay?" "Dear". We try to "take to the future" our best selves in: spams, virtual attendants, automated messages. "How are you, [your name]?". "Is everything okay?".

23B. Tet (tec) is i-men-se. We are plush ants.

24. Tet (tec!) clones humans like making sausage with pigs. Side by side, on an industrial scale. What does it mean?

25. Tet, technology, has the essence - the look - red. Again the cold war giving the hint about the real moral of tet (tec).

"What Horace said was:How can a man die better /Than facing adversity /For the ashes of his ancestors /And for the temples of his gods".

26. If this isn't our DNA trying to communicate, who is? A hollywood director?

"I created you Jack.I am your god",

Tet, the technology, responds. Jack doesn't even notice.

Horace, at least in this film, speaks louder.

Jack calls Tet (tec) Sally. Sally is known to be a technological modeling of the real Sally from the past. A video. Photoshopped to say other things, with the same face. Calling tet (tec) Sally, Jack doesn't hesitate to treat her like a spam, that is: throw a nuclear bomb into her heart.

"If we have souls,They are made of the love we shareUndimmed by timeUnbound by death".[It doesn't end with time or death]

"I am Jack HarperAnd I am Home".

Says Jack 52, not 49. Can one clone - one spam - replace another?

Son of tet (tec), let's say. Very-well-cloned, what changes?

The clone in paradise with the muse. Clone and muse. Love, ancestry.

I know nothing.