On Knowing
Knowing: A Movie Review
By John David Ebert
Great artists are always sensitive to changes in our environment that remain subliminal to the rest of us. They pick up these transformations –usually inflicted by new technologies — with their ant-like antennae, and narratize them as pictures which often dramatize scenarios of invasion. George Pal’s 1950s version of War of the Worlds, for instance, was not about aliens from another planet, but about the invasion of our society by television. Note how the aliens bathe their victims in floods of electromagnetic radiation just like the average denizen of our modern living rooms bathed in low frequency pulses fired at him at light speed from his electronic scanning box. Read the rest of this entry »
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