Sunday, June 27, 2004
Enemy of the State
We watched Enemy of the State last night, since it was Saturday and, until The Outer Limits starts there’s not really anything on. Excepting perhaps Hot Ticket, which I prefer to Ebert & Darn I Miss Siskel’s show.
Excellent movie, and I am happy to report Deb, on her first viewing of it, agreed. She’s right though, it is funny seeing it in a post-9/11 world.
Anyway, I noticed one freaky detail. When they looked up information about the bad guy, apparently via phone or internet from the “jar” following the description of it being totally disconnected from the outside world (missed that anomaly before), they showed his date of birth. He was born on 9/11, in 1940.
I think I’ll make a film! It will demonstrate that the evil islamists saw this movie and were inspired by that scene to pick 9/11 as the date for the major attacks. Think it’ll fly? Hey, it could have happened that way! At least as readily as Bush could have been behind 9/11 personally. Plus if I put it in a cleverly edited film, with the right things emphasized and the wrong things left out or glossed over, everyone will have to believe it.