Friday 27 February 2015
Wednesday 25 February 2015
The Hidden Meaning Behind The Borrowers
The Borrowers is a comedy about tiny people called The Borrowers who live in our houses and borrow items from their 'beans' (Human Beings). The film plays on our day to day forgetfullness and how we see to always keep losing batteries, keys, needles and scissors. The film places our excuses in the hands of The Borrowers who simply borrow the things we don't need or have an abundance of for their day to day life.
Not only is the film amazingly shot with excellent props and settings the films has an another level that until recently had alluded me: The film can be seen as an allegorical tale of the relationship between British and American relations.
The first reason was actually the thing that made me continue along this line of thought. The Borrowers are all played by British actors, the Humans Americans. The relations aspects comes into play as the borrowers are much smaller and live off the humans, as is the stereotype of our relationship. They are many times overlooked by the human beings because of their size and completely ignored because of the abundance of the items the borrowers take.
Most humans are also very ignorant. They take the loses of items as being forgetful and dismiss any ideas, until the younger more adventurous human goes in search of the borrowers. He is not contempt with assumption but tries to educate himself and discover the world outside his own life.
Moreover the 'bad' human being, the evil fat businessman who wants to destroy where the borrowers live and turn it into his Pottersville. When he discovers the borrowers his answer is to crush them, destory them, completely opposed to the younger human/american. The businessman represents America's ruthless, aggressive, capitalist attitudes who want nothing but to destroy for their own gain.
The borrowers are 'quiet, cautious, inconspicuous'. The famous line recited many times by the dad of the family is an expression of the stereotypical reserved British attitude. Think about how many times you were on holiday and saw a commotion your reaction was politely ignore it. Being quiet, cautious and inconspicuous is the stereotype of our mentality.
There are holes in this theory one being the exterminator and policemen are played by two famous british actors but fuck you my theory is right. I am also aware it was a book and has had many films preceding it but I am ignoring all these to suit my theory like any good researcher!
Not only is the film amazingly shot with excellent props and settings the films has an another level that until recently had alluded me: The film can be seen as an allegorical tale of the relationship between British and American relations.
The first reason was actually the thing that made me continue along this line of thought. The Borrowers are all played by British actors, the Humans Americans. The relations aspects comes into play as the borrowers are much smaller and live off the humans, as is the stereotype of our relationship. They are many times overlooked by the human beings because of their size and completely ignored because of the abundance of the items the borrowers take.
Most humans are also very ignorant. They take the loses of items as being forgetful and dismiss any ideas, until the younger more adventurous human goes in search of the borrowers. He is not contempt with assumption but tries to educate himself and discover the world outside his own life.
Moreover the 'bad' human being, the evil fat businessman who wants to destroy where the borrowers live and turn it into his Pottersville. When he discovers the borrowers his answer is to crush them, destory them, completely opposed to the younger human/american. The businessman represents America's ruthless, aggressive, capitalist attitudes who want nothing but to destroy for their own gain.
The borrowers are 'quiet, cautious, inconspicuous'. The famous line recited many times by the dad of the family is an expression of the stereotypical reserved British attitude. Think about how many times you were on holiday and saw a commotion your reaction was politely ignore it. Being quiet, cautious and inconspicuous is the stereotype of our mentality.
There are holes in this theory one being the exterminator and policemen are played by two famous british actors but fuck you my theory is right. I am also aware it was a book and has had many films preceding it but I am ignoring all these to suit my theory like any good researcher!
Monday 23 February 2015
1 Thing Mums Should Stop Saying
Mothers have great advice. In most cases they'll be either the number 1 or 2 person you'll call about a problem. The life experiences mothers gather are so unique yet relatable it'll be hard to find a problem that cannot be solved by their advice.
However they do come up with some shit that is based on no evidence or personal experience whatsoever. Merely a comment passed down by their mother who was too busy making dinner that they didn't have time to focus on the problem.
One of these is 'Take your jacket off inside because you won't feel the benefit when you go outside.' This is so far from the truth it makes the distance between Earth and Pluto look like the 100m dash.
Living in New York facing -13 temperature isn't the most harshest of conditions but it has taught me a thing or two about the cold. When dealing with cold weather you have to think of it like your body is a fortress and the cold is a besieging force.
When an army attacks a castle, the defending force doesn't put their defences up last minute so the castle will 'feel the benefits of the moat, boiling water, murder holes and stockpiled supplies when the attacking force comes.' No they prepare as soon as they discover about the attack.
No castle or fortress can survive forever, it comes down to a case of supplies. The attacking force starves the defenders out if they do not have the overwhelming force to take the castle. Sun Tzu said an attacking force needs to outnumber the enemy 4-1 at least if the attacking force wants to win.
Like the cold no matter how many layers you wear the cold will eventually get to you. Yet if you stockpile your warmth when you go out into the cold it'll take longer for the cold to get to you. Most of my journeys have been a quick walk to the train station so I stockpile my warmth for they 5 minute walk.
Wear as many layers before going, in fact you should wear more so you are literally sweating before you got out. I'd say even wear them when you go out but you may look silly. This, my friends is fact!
However they do come up with some shit that is based on no evidence or personal experience whatsoever. Merely a comment passed down by their mother who was too busy making dinner that they didn't have time to focus on the problem.
One of these is 'Take your jacket off inside because you won't feel the benefit when you go outside.' This is so far from the truth it makes the distance between Earth and Pluto look like the 100m dash.
Living in New York facing -13 temperature isn't the most harshest of conditions but it has taught me a thing or two about the cold. When dealing with cold weather you have to think of it like your body is a fortress and the cold is a besieging force.
When an army attacks a castle, the defending force doesn't put their defences up last minute so the castle will 'feel the benefits of the moat, boiling water, murder holes and stockpiled supplies when the attacking force comes.' No they prepare as soon as they discover about the attack.
No castle or fortress can survive forever, it comes down to a case of supplies. The attacking force starves the defenders out if they do not have the overwhelming force to take the castle. Sun Tzu said an attacking force needs to outnumber the enemy 4-1 at least if the attacking force wants to win.
Like the cold no matter how many layers you wear the cold will eventually get to you. Yet if you stockpile your warmth when you go out into the cold it'll take longer for the cold to get to you. Most of my journeys have been a quick walk to the train station so I stockpile my warmth for they 5 minute walk.
Wear as many layers before going, in fact you should wear more so you are literally sweating before you got out. I'd say even wear them when you go out but you may look silly. This, my friends is fact!
Maybe another pair of socks
Sunday 1 February 2015
Quickie: Another Cool Video
Even though its a bit cruel the video is quite cool and certainly interesting:
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