powder essay
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Powder
Most likely written by some kind of nut, the film Powder
is indeed
strange. Powder is the story of an albilno completely hairless
teenager who has
the power to use an extraordinary amount of his brain capacity.
Powder is the
archetypal outsider.Edward Lightning Hands might be a more
fitting name for all
the overuse of the already worn out “Boo Radley-like misfit who
is also a
despised prophet” type theme. Aside from its lack of orignality
it is also
typically “hollywood” in it's blatant overuse of moral
superlatives.
“The most advanced intellect in the history of mankind,”
is how one of
the films many protagonistic representatives of society describes
Powders
eidetic memory and off the scale IQ.The writer expects the
audience to view what
Powder says with more credibility because he has the use of more
of his brain
than they do. This is a very powerful way for the writer to
communicate theme,
by developing a philosophy in an attempt to affect the audience,
and having
powder embody that philosophy so that people will see him as some
sort of role
model. In general, this idea could work, but the writer of this
particular film
obviuosly missed the boat here.
Instead of the independence imbodied in most people,
Powder belives in a
unification of all humans, every single one, through some sort of
single-
consciousness. The idea of using Powder as a role model can work,
but the
audience has to view powder as being worthy. Here Powder views
people, unwilling
to accept the idea of a single-consciousness solely on faith, as
closed-minded.
This dogmatic type of view nullifies any worth powder might have
had as a role
model, and it dooms any chance the message of the film, which
supposedly
presents a different, better, and higher, view of things, ever
had of
influencing people.
Besides the implied message, the film itself is just
plain awful. With
cliché after cliché and an abundance of predictable scenes, its a
wonder anyone
could think this movie was worth making. A semi-conscious
two-year old could
predict exactly what would happen next, and who would suddenly
reappear in the
film. The whole addition of a love interest was inane and
irrelevant to the
point the writer was trying to get across. The suposedly touching
scenes were
obviously predictable, and although some are well acted, they add
nothong but
another impractical twist to the story
One good point about this movie is the addition of Jeff
Goldblum as
Powder's science teacher. Whoever typecast Golblum as a nutty
scientist
pondering technology versus humanity really knew what they were
doing, beacause
it works wonderfully. His delivery of lines in the film is
impeccable, often
magnifying the script to more than it deserves to be. His talent
as an actor
shines clear and true in what is possibly the best line of the
best line of the
movie: “you want to know why he doesn't have a hair on his body,
beacause he is
electolysis drink that in.”
Though powder is interesting and a bit thought provoking
it is best used
as an example of what not to see at the theater. It is in the
whole a poorly
consructed and cliche film that ends up with an awkward message.
In theory we
are to model our lives around what Powder would do, or what he
would think about
what we are doing. Goldblum admits that “we live in a dark age of
man,” where “
we are doing everythin we can merely so we don't kill each
other.” Therefore, we
are supposed to live our lives as pwder would have us live them?
Yeah right!
