If you were aliens, would all you have to do in life is to drive the poor humans crazy that the shallow American television, and the education system saturated with hatred for science has made them think? The fact that a significant percentage of the American public, and unfortunately also of the Israeli public believe in superstitions, should they be defeated in the rating of astrology, numerology, and other illogical logics?
If you were aliens, would all you have to do in life is to drive the poor humans crazy that the shallow American television, and the education system saturated with hatred for science has made them think? The fact that a significant percentage of the American public, and unfortunately also of the Israeli public believe in superstitions, should they be defeated in the rating of astrology, numerology, and other illogical logics?
Two stories characterize - one the beginning of the twentieth century and the other its end. Both started as a joke, which went completely wild. The first is of course the case of the Loch Ness monster. Already in the mid-1,500s, an elderly Scot admitted that he himself was photographed in the well-known photo from the XNUMXs wearing a diving suit from a slightly sharp angle in front of the sparkling water. This experiment, in artistic photography, pleased him and he began to market it as evidence of the existence of the legendary monster, which was first reported XNUMX years earlier. The second story is the one immortalized in the movie Science.
Since the late XNUMXs, when the peak was in the early XNUMXs, farmers discovered circles (and later more complex shapes) embedded in fields of wheat, oats, barley and corn. According to Carl Sagan's book, A Haunted World, in the early XNUMXs the landscape, especially in southern England, was arched with huge geometric shapes, some the size of football fields, that were embedded in the fields before harvest - circles tangent to other circles or connected to them by axes, parallel lines depleted, " "Insect-like", in some patterns there was an inner circle surrounded by four smaller circles in a symmetrical position - the clear conclusion was that they were sunk by a flying saucer and its four landing pads.
What was not proposed as a possible cause - whole journals were founded dedicated to the subject, whether the cause of the shapes is that strange atmospheric phenomenon called "columnar vortex" or perhaps an even stranger phenomenon "annular vortex". What about ball lightning? Japanese researchers even tried to simulate the relevant plasma physics in the laboratory.
But as the patterns became more complex, the meteorological and natural explanations were undermined, and the trend went in supernatural directions. His queries were submitted in parliament, the royal family summoned for consultation Howard Solly Zuckerman, the former chief scientific advisor of the Ministry of Defense. Some said ghosts were involved. The genealogical organizations arose and split and the celebration was in full swing.
In 1991, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, two likable guys from Southampton, announced that they had been labeling these drawings in Kemah for 15 years. They hatched the idea one evening over mugs of beer at their regular pub. They enjoyed reading news about fools and thought it would be nice to make fun of the fools who believe in anything. At first they flattened the wheat with the heavy steel bar that Bauer used to smuggle out the back door of his frame shop. Later planks and ropes were used.
After years of perfecting the forms, they got tired of the prank. They have already passed the age of sixty. They even demonstrated to reporters how they created the patterns, even the most elaborate ones.
It goes without saying that the book by the journalist Jim Schnabel, who explained the hoax, did not sell a fraction of a percent of what the books that are still circulating supporting the claim that it was the work of aliens were sold.
And at least if it was a quality film, but Yakir Elkarib, and this is just one example (also Rita Koren, the film critic of Kol Israel) claim that it is a very bad film.
Here is a representative excerpt from his review. The illogicality and even the absurdities of "science" scream from the first moment. First - the strange geometric signs that appear in the cornfields of Graham Hess (Mel Gibson), a former priest who returned with a question following the death of his wife in a car accident. These signs are not a new matter, but have appeared since the 60s in every book and every article dealing with the existence of life outside the earth. It's hard to believe that a screenwriter as meticulous as Malan was not aware that he was recycling material that had already been discussed and ground to a fine point.
The matter of religion also receives a strange representation; Hess, as mentioned, lost his faith after his wife was crushed to death in an accident caused by a local guy named Ray Reddy (played by Shmalan himself). What's a guy whose appearance suggests he's of Indian descent doing in the heart of Pennsylvania's corn country, usually populated by redneck families? At the end of the day, Hess repents again and puts on the priest's uniform again, but it is not clear why. Nothing that happens in the movie should have pushed him to this decision. but on the contrary.
Hess lives with his son Morgan (Rory Culkin), his daughter Beau (Abigail Breslin) and his brother Meryl (Joaquin Phoenix). The latter was once a baseball star known for his fearsome hitting. Another strange characterization, given the physical limitation of Phoenix the actor. In the end, it is that punch that saves the entire family from doom. This, because the priest's wife's last dresses before her death were "battered, Meryl, battered".
In the film, apart from the scientific errors there are also many logical errors. One of them is the question - if Mel Gibson understood that the signs were maps to prepare the invasion of the aliens, why didn't he take a tractor and plow the area to protest the signs? All this and more on the MOVIE MISTAKES website. ( to the SIGNS movie error page)
