Conversation going on about the new Indiana Jones movie -- questions whether Indy is a Communist sympathizer, a ‘pinko.’When Indy and Co. entered the alien room, my first thought was "sleeper cell of fellow travelers." Then we hear the dialogue about the collective unconscious. During all the loud sights and sounds, as Cate Blanchett’s Soviet agent met her fate near the end, didn't she scream, "I was wrong!"? I thought perhaps there she was realizing this collective was not the ideal for which she had hoped...or did I not hear her correctly?
Speaking of collectives: what about those prairie dogs, monkeys, and ants? Do they not all exhibit some sort of collective unconscious? The behavior of these creatures has been one of the most-criticized portions of the film. Nevertheless, could not their actions be purposeful, planted clues to the nature of the skull?
I don't really care, mind you. Indiana Jones has always been an apolitical cuss, whose passions are for the acquisition and sharing of knowledge. If you want to judge his actions and the film within the framework of a political system, how about calling it instead a parliament – which is a group of owls, which is a hoot…?
2 comments:
You're awfully clever with words, young man. I haven't yet seen this particular moving picture so I can't guess how appropriate your surmise may be in this case, but you've made me even more interested in seeing it to find out.
(Not sure I entirely agree with Indy always being apolitical. The Young Indiana Jones series had him taking stands in favor of female suffrage and civil rights and against WWI -- and I'm not saying the tv series must be considered canonical for the movie version, but merely that those examples showed how political views could be integrated with a more socially conscious perspective without damaging the action hero side.
RAB! How are you?!
I was going to say something about the series being non-canon, but then I remembered he actually makes a reference in "Crystal Skull" about one of his youthful discretions.
Perhaps as he got older he became disenchanted with both sides of the aisle, ending up the apolitical cuss I saw here.
Or maybe not... I need to see it again soon...
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