M Night Shyamalan's claustrophobic tale
of aliens landing speaks to the fearful mindset that led to Trump.
In Arrival (not to be confused with David Twohy's 1996 movie The Arrival) professor of languages Dr. Louise Banks (Amy Adams) is headed to work when news
of an alien landing spreads.
Much like proof
of the alien landings, finding the best insurance policy can be hard to find.
Not exact matches
But almost every other foreign policy responsibility, McDougall shows, lies in a no - man's -
land between the various branches
of government: No mention is made
of a power to recognize or de-recognize foreign regimes, terminate treaties as opposed to make them, make peace as opposed to war, declare neutrality in the wars
of others, annex or cede territory, bestow or deny foreign aid, impose sanctions, regulate immigration and the status
of aliens...
But as
alien as the
land seems, it also is a painting that gives me a sense
of... home?
To be sure, from the days
of the Exile on, the majority
of Jews lived not in Palestine but in foreign
lands, where they were played upon by
alien customs and ideas, and in such a situation continued fealty to the ancestral faith was far more a matter
of individual choice than it was in the homeland.
Like the Jews in Babylon living in a foreign
land, Christians are — and always have been — «resident
aliens» called to love our neighbors with deeds
of service so that those around us will «see [our] good deeds and glorify God» (1 Peter 2:12 NIV).
In either case he was culturally
alien to the British possessors
of the
land.
That strange
land in which hymn writers and other worshipers find themselves
aliens is a period
of social, theological and liturgical turmoil; Christians are discovering that they can not, as keynoter Peter Gomes said, «continue living off the dividends
of the piety
of generations long past.»
Is my typically Christian need to maintain the distinction between self and God to the end, even in the fullest and final attainment
of oneness,
alien to Pure
Land Buddhism?
They are sojourners,
aliens in a strange
land; their task is that
of demythologizing and debunking all ideological idolatry (whether Marxism or capitalism, liberal democracy or conservatism).46.
When you reap the harvest
of your
land, you shall not reap to the very edges
of your field, or gather the gleanings
of your harvest; you shall leave them for the poor and for the
alien: I am the Lord your God.
In the latter connection he cites Deuteronomy 10, «You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the
land of Egypt,» and Exodus 22, «You shall not wrong or oppress a resident
alien, for you were
aliens in the
land of Egypt.»
My all time favorite
of his is An Ethic For Christians and Other
Aliens in a Strange
Land:.
Here's a quote from William Stringfellow's book, An Ethic for Christians and Other
Aliens in a Strange
Land: ``... the basic conflict among all principalities remains, though it be subdued or concealed for awhile, because the only morality governing each principality is its own survival as over against very other principality, as well as over against human beings and, indeed, the rest
of Creation.
Further, in the ultimate sense
of ownership Israel Is a tenant, not an owner: «The
land is mine — with me you are but
aliens and tenants» (Lev.
Only in a setting where the poor and the
alien have a right to the produce
of the fields and where laws regarding
land and family» were designed to prevent the rise
of a pertnanent underclass could Ruth's initiative have been exercised with any effect at all.
Heb 11:9 By faith he lived as an
alien in the
land of promise, as in a foreign
land, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, fellow heirs
of the same promise; Heb 11:10 for he was looking for the city which has foundations, whose architect and builder is God.
The pages
of the Torah resonate with a profound concern for the socially and economically vulnerable in society — the poor, day laborers, orphans and widows, resident
aliens, and even the Levites who, unlike members
of other tribes, were assigned no parcels
of land in Israel.
If your invisible, untraceable
alien claims responsibility for the creation
of the universe and life on this planet, if your invisible, untraceable
alien created a race
of people, led them out
of slavery in a foreign
land, appeared to them countless times, spoke thru prophets to them over thousands
of years, and all
of that interaction was successively captured in a book over those thousands
of years..
If any one
of you truly believe what written in the Bible, then you should have no problem believing that all the various Gods in reality were
Aliens landed on planet earth and who did take the locals for a fantasy ride that has yet to finish... think how much fun they must have been having all these years..
7 [Because
of your detestable disobedience] your country lies desolate, your cities are burned with fire; your
land — strangers devour it in your very presence, and it is desolate, as overthrown by
aliens.
The best book ever on the book
of Revelation and the American church is by William Stringfellow, «An Ethic for Christians and Other
Aliens in a Strange
Land»: http://amzn.to/2jLCUfP
I would beg to differ here with Alon Leil and ask him is it the case that the South African government was not interested in security when they said were surrounded by a «predominantly hostile world inhabited by dark people», omitting the perhaps important consideration that they might not have been so hostile had they not taken away all their
lands and enforced an
alien way
of life upon them and then subjugating, dominating and humiliating them.
There is understandable agony in the hearts
of the people over brazen attempts by belligerent
aliens to subjugate them in their
land.
If we insist that the Ghanaian everywhere act right, where will be the Ghanaian tolerance for abuses against the Ghana economy in the
land of the Ghanaian by the
aliens Mosquito and his unpatriotic team import into our economy from Togo specifically?
«I like to say that if
aliens sent a probe to Earth and it
landed in the Sahara, they would conclude the Earth is all desert,» says planetary scientist Michael Wong
of Caltech, who was not involved in the new study.
If
aliens ever
land on Earth, Kean writes, one
of the few things humans could present that might actually be understood by the visitors is the periodic table
of the elements.
Things were not looking so good for
alien life in 1976, after the Viking I spacecraft
landed on Mars, stretched out its robotic arm, and gathered up a fist - size pile
of red dirt for chemical testing.
In every region, with the exception
of a number
of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number
of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use
of natural resources; air,
land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact
of invasive
alien species and climate change, among others.
+ / - 500,000: km2
of land is degraded due to factors such as deforestation, unsustainable agriculture, overgrazing, uncontrolled mining activities, invasive
alien species and climate change, leading to soil erosion, salinization, pollution, and loss
of vegetation or soil fertility
If Erlandson and his colleagues are right, it was a series
of sea voyages and river crossings that brought our ancestors to
alien lands, launching the greatest biological invasion
of all time.
Back in print in the United States for the first time in 30 years, Roadside Picnic takes place in one
of six zones on Earth where
aliens once
landed and left behind deadly gravitational pits, toxic slime, and technology that researchers risk their lives to obtain and study.
Imagine that one day there
lands upon Earth an
alien spacecraft stuffed with a million crumpled pieces
of paper, each covered in text written in an unknown script.
One highlight (spoiler alert) is when a splash
of alien DNA that
lands on a human's face causes his body to morph, over time, into a human -
alien hybrid.
They've also lamented the lack
of distinction most people make between
alien landings — which haven't occurred — and the possibility
of future
alien contacts (which could indeed happen).
The set - up
of DreamWorks» latest comedy animation is the best thing in it: two
alien superbeings fall to earth, one
lands on his feet at a happy family hearth, the other fetches up in prison where he learns some very artful dodges.
If one wants to understand the motivations
of an
alien presence that has
landed on Earth via a meteorite, that person will have to either look elsewhere or create a motive out
of whole cloth.
When
alien zombies
land on Earth, the future
of the human race rests on the uneasy shoulders
of Major Bendover and his hilariously inept posse.
I say over expanded because clearly in the first film none
of this stuff had been intended, it was (I think) just a band
of humans fighting
aliens after crash
landing.
In the opening moments
of Annihilation, a small meteor punctures the earth's atmosphere and
lands on the East Coast, where
alien DNA starts to sprout and spread.
Beginning his career on stage, the English actor made his film debut in 1992's «
Alien 3» before
landing roles in such films as «Moulin Rouge,» «Doom,» «Pirate
of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides» and «Dredd.»
It will feature Adams («American Hustle») as an expert linguist recruited by the military to determine whether a group
of aliens crash -
landing on Earth come in peace or are a threat.
Ripley is engulfed by darkness and despair in director David Fincher's claustrophobic and underrated big - screen debut (which looks a lot better in light
of Seven — photographed by
Alien Resurrection cinematographer Darius Khondji — and The Game), as she crash
lands on Fiorina «Fury» 161, a remote, nearly deserted, Class C Prison, maximum security, Double Y Chromosome - Work Correctional Facility after drifting in space — again — for an unspecified time.
AVP 2 continues directly from the ending
of the first film, with an
alien / predator hybrid causing the ship to crash
land back on Earth.
With stunning special effects and gritty realism, the film plunges us into a world where the
aliens have
landed... only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes
of Johannesburg.
In her upcoming movie, «Under the Skin,» she plays, «as the audience gradually comes to learn — a form
of alien,
landed or stranded among us, and acquiring human males not for sex or friendship but for the serial harvesting
of their meat,» the New Yorker reports.
The
aliens (and a predator) have
landed on planet Earth, and small - town America is about to become the scene
of an epic interstellar showdown.
Early on, a donut - shaped
alien spaceship
lands in midtown Manhattan, allowing the effete Continental sadist Ebony Maw (Tom Vaughan - Lawlor), who's like a kick - ass version
of the Ghost
of Jacob Marley, to ring - lead some FX street mayhem.
This Thanksgiving, Metrograph revisits this classic story
of the friendship that blossoms between a kid named Elliott and an
alien whose ship crash -
lands in the woods.