Aeon Flux

I finally managed to watch this movie in the morning, after many many many obstacles. I guess, there’s somewhat always a path directed in life for us to follow. Whatever happened was entirely unbelieveably insane, but then, well, I guess what has to be done has to be done. After having all paths blocked, with only one path left to choose from, I managed to watch Aeon Flux, with great joy, good. This sort of reminds me the concepts of psychohistory, that in history, the way events/things change will be to such a degree that we are guided on a pre-destined path. What we view as choice, is not actually a true free will choice, but rather a choice of situation. This is not to say that there’s necessarily a superstitious OTHER out there controlling our lives, but more like that there is a certain course of nature, a certain course of life, a certain course of social development that creates an intricate web of conduct for every large or small actions we may take in life. There is not necessarily good or bad, right or wrong, but just action following action. As for what the reasons behind these actions are, perhaps we can say simply that we are creatures seeking for survival in a world that wasn’t build to easily allow that.Aeon Flux was a movie set in the future, where technology collides with nature, with technology became a different kind of nature. The technology of their time are organic, growing weapons from plants, sending messages through electric currents between brains. All took place in a city closed off from the outside world, the last city of humanity, surviving a catastrophic virus that wiped out 99 % of humanity. The outside world had grown wild, nature had found its way back to balance. What is left of the 1 % of humanity were allowed the chance of survival after 400 years of struggle. The nature tested humanity’s strength by eliminating our chances of fertility, taking away our rights to life, but humanity carried on through methods of cloning, seeking to survive in a world that doesn’t seem to need it anymore. 400 years of evolution, nature decided to give humans one more chance, nature healed humans of its sterility, and gave back our birth rights.Not caring so much about the sci-fi aspect depicted in the movie (which was really fascinating, btw, and should be viewed simply for the way it was designed), the plot-line itself was a fascinating thing of its own. Should it have been expanded more, perhaps it would have been far more fascinating, the story too complex to fit in a 2 hour movie screening. It’s not the question of freedom, the question of love, the question of future, the question of memories, the question of death that really intrigued me, but more rather, the question of what exactly controls our lives. In the end, it seems like neither religion, government, science, whatever, really controls our lives, rather, it is nature that decided to keep or take humanity.Look at Bangladesh. Whatever was meant to begin, whatever nature’s strike back, it is not just happening before our eyes, it is happening faster and faster, and all the while nature hopes to give us a second chance, holding back a little, if ever so little, we might have a chance to live on. Where will humanity go from here?