"Monsters...Monsters from the Id." [View all]
My wife and I have different tastes in movies, but often she convinces me to watch one she selects, and in the end, I often find myself appreciative.
She almost never wants to watch a movie that I want to watch, but she agreed to watch one I just got out of the library, made (1956) before she was born, "Forbidden Planet" that I probably saw on TV (albeit in black and white as my parents didn't own a color TV), well, before she was born.
For its time, it was a very high tech movie. You know what? I never forgot that move, even though I was a child when I first saw it.
The movie is about a relief team on military supralight speed spacecraft (which is run in a way very much modeled on the 1950's US Navy) traveling to a distant solar system to rescue a team of scientists with whom contact was lost 20 years earlier.
When they arrive, the find one scientist and his daughter there; the scientist reports that all the others were killed by a mysterious force on the planet. He then describes a very advanced civilization that lived on the planet but mysteriously vanished, just as they had developed a technology to telekinetically move matter with their minds alone.
It turns out it was a bad idea to develop that particular technology:
The movie is on my mind because maybe, it seems, the invention of the internet, a powerful tool, has unleashed "Monsters from the ID." It can't project thoughts, but it certainly can project ideas, including primitive, odious ideas. It certainly seems so.
My wife and I will watch it tonight in our dying country.
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