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More voices tell the world: SERENITY rocks!
The Record (Newspaper at Havard Law School) & People's Weekly World "The ideas it develops are good news for all of us — and terrible news for George W. Bush and all of them." |
Ig Nobel Prizes, Serenity, & Zombies!!!
Deviant Behavior
By Dan Alban
Here the part about "Serenity":
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Serenity - Best SF Film in Years
Not only is Serenity the best science fiction film since The Matrix, it is also one of the best films of the year, in any genre. A low-tech space western with no aliens or laser guns, Serenity is a follow-up to the prematurely cancelled TV series Firefly, but remains easily accessible to the casual viewer. Created by Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the world of Serenity is political realist's version of Star Wars in which the rebels lost and the governing authority isn't a cackling evil empire but an ostensibly benevolent democracy, the Alliance.
The film focuses on the adventures of the scofflaw crew of Serenity, a small smuggling ship owned by Captain Malcolm 'Mal' Reynolds (Nathan Fillion), an unreconstructed rebel veteran of the failed war of independence. Serenity has picked up a dangerous passenger - unstable pubescent psychic prodigy River Tam (Summer Glau), who's on the run with her brother after he rescued her from a covert Alliance training facility. A ruthless Alliance agent, concerned that River may have learned about dark Alliance secrets with her psychic powers, is in hot pursuit. This doesn't sit well with hardheaded Mal, who doesn't cotton to Alliance authority one bit and eventually declares, "No more running. I aim to misbehave." Pairing roller-coaster thrills with an intelligent political plot about abuse of power, Serenity offers hilarious quips, chases, romance, gunfights, fistfights, swordfights, space battles, run-ins with cannibalistic Reavers, and a sophisticated philosophical subtext.
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Sci-fi ‘Serenity’ makes its point
Author: Jim Lane
Serenity
Directed by Joss Whedon
2005, 119 min., PG-13
Science fiction, when it’s done right, is a terrific vehicle for developing ideas that apply to the real world. “Serenity” is done very well. The ideas it develops are good news for all of us — and terrible news for George W. Bush and all of them.
The future universe depicted in the film, as in the wonderful television program “Firefly” before it, has fallen into the clutches of a bitterly regimented, controlling, unseen ruling clique: “The Alliance.” They have destroyed all organized resistance in a recent civil war.
One veteran of the losing side, the hardened and seemingly cynical Captain Malcolm Reynolds, tries to make a living with an ancient Firefly-class space freighter (the back end of it lights up!) misnamed “Serenity” and a disorganized crew of maverick space jockeys. They can’t afford to be picky about legality, so they take on whatever paying jobs they can find, including a little robbery from time to time. Reynolds makes it clear that he is not trying to fight The Alliance, but just trying to get by within the world they control.
The Alliance, on the other hand, is much less tolerant of Serenity’s crew. Their secret vulnerability, the reason that they so fear Reynolds and his rejects, is never completely clear. For purposes of this episode, The Alliance is out to recover the results of one of its uglier mind-control experiments, a woman named River who is hidden aboard Serenity.
The film doesn’t portray the nearly perfect future universe of the “Star Trek” series. It doesn’t show great masses in interplanetary war as in “Star Wars.” What makes “Serenity” wonderful sci-fi is the revelation of a small group of very human people who have not surrendered to regimentation and oppression, and never will.
Admirers of the television series and director Joss Whedon’s better-known “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” are going to love “Serenity.” Everybody who is willing to put up a fight against terrific odds is probably going to like it too.
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