The focus is largely on conspiracy
theories and the major ones of the last few decades come together in a
seamless package here in Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull--Roswell,
Area 57, flying saucers, nuclear blasts, communist agitators, alien
invasion, mayan mythology--it's all here, presented as one romping
adventure for Indy and his band of intrepid explorers, saving the world
from the bad guys once again. I think films like this are most helful
in reading the cultural temperature, helping us identify the things
that lurk beneath the surface of our culture, refelcting our hopes and
fears and everything else. The ongoing cultural love affair with
conspiracy theories and alien visitations must say something about our
inner desires and fears. Perhaps the loss of trust in institutions
which seems to characterize our times is reflected in the belief that
the government and just about every other organization is 'out to get
us' or at least, withhold the truth from us, and of course the
alien-invaders-meet-the-mayan-in an end of the world scenario must
surely speak to our need for some sense of the sacred and the beyond, i
spite of our ongoing msitrust/dismissal of traditional faiths etc. The
ancient cultures are always much more intelligent that we and this
seems to speak to our suspicion that the modern world, in spite of its
discoveries and technological advences, is somehow lacking at its
core--I don't know, I had to find something to take up my time while
Harrison Ford was enduring his umpteenth physically impossible,
death-defying, pain-avoiding, commie-busting stunt, oh and watching
Cate Blanchett as a Stalinist psychic wasn't enough...
like you, what i'm wondering (having now seen it a week or two late) is what this says about our underlying culture. if, as they say, it takes 5-10 years from idea conception to screen then this film is firmly rooted in turn of the century stuff - y2k, 9/11, etc. i think if you view it as such, it's an interesting commentary on the times...
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