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Originally Posted by SteamWake
I cant watch that opening video it creeps me out  |
Yes, I think that's the point.
Am I the only one who actually likes the intro?
To my mind, the video footage is meant to be at odds with Milton's poem.
Think of the line "an individual kiss." (Right when the ship explodes in a fireball.)
Milton is talking here about the moment after death where we are greeted by the divine presence.
Kind of the ultimate post-modern juxtaposition.
What are we to make of a society, a world, a universe, where Christian values are somehow supposed to coexist with nazi death camps, or the Bataan death march?
(Milton was staunchly, though unconventionally, Christian.)
The poem is talking about the soul's triumph over all of this, even a triumph over time.
But I don't think Milton could have concieved of a time three hundred years in the future where we would so systematically set about destroying each other. What triumph could anyone see in this?
I like the intro's topsy-turvy comment on something no one can really make sense of.
What are we to make of a society were friends socialize over a simulation-game that relives this most savage period of our history?
Ours is a world of strange juxtapositions.
Kinda odd, isn't it?
Makes ya think.:hmm: