The Red Planet

There is a new movie out that’s kinda interesting; it’s the Red Planet. [uh] We kinda figured [from the] we, Rightway, kinda figured from the beginning, that Red Planet was gonna be an interesting “take” on what’s going on in the world today. [uh] It again deals with a trip to Mars and we know that Mars, in the Greek literature, is the metaphor for the planet of war. And we know that the planet of war is symbolic of the democracy. So when you’re looking at Earth it was supposed to be under common law, because of exigent circumstance, it’s under a democracy which is a form of military law. So, in reality the people on planet Earth, these days, are acting more like they’re living on Mars than planet Earth. The story of the Red Planet, which by the way the exigent circumstance on Earth, as we learned in the Red Amendment [uh] put out by L.B. Bork and many other areas and sources. We know that red is denoting the Essau tribes that are trying to get back the inheritance from God’s people. We also know that the “reds” are synonymous with the communists and the socialists. We know that most of our presidential candidates, most of the time, wear red ties, (to) tell you exactly who their coming from and who they really represent when their doing their campaigning. But the Red Planet also is interesting because Hollywood is again telling you a very interesting story in the background. And it’s basically about six astronauts that go to Mars, in maybe a thirty to fifty year time period into the future. And their purpose on going on that mission is literally to find an alternative to planet Earth to live on. [The] the theory being that man has totally destroyed the [uh] Earth as far as living conditions by pollution and everything else. And they’re looking for a clean planet to move to, to survive on. The six astronauts are the first manned team to go to the moon. What they are basically doing is they’re following up a number of unmanned space shots. Which sent things [er to mars, yea] it’s an unmanned space shot has sent certain things to mars, certain things [um] were sent to Mars. Basically devices that would start the process of algae growth on mars, or not algae but some kind of bionics that would produce oxygen into the atmosphere, supposedly to make Mars habitable to mankind. The experiment according to what the science program on Earth or space program knew, was believed to be successful on Mars, creating the oxygen, and now the first manned team is going up there to check on it, and to see what’s happening. There has been an unmanned spaceship that have set up [a] a building called a habitat to which these six astronauts were supposed to go to and would be livable. And in fact, was supposed to have already produced [um] fruits and vegetables in limited quantities by hydroponics, so that when the crew got there they would have sustenance to stay for a period of time before coming home. In the six astronauts there was one woman, who was the commander of the vessel that transported them from Earth to Mars and there were five men. So, six is the number of man so we’ve got a symbol of man going to the planet Mars the planet [of, of um] of war. Just before they entered the Martian atmosphere and were getting ready to descend by a lander onto the surface. They ran into some extreme difficulties, which compromised the vessel they were in. And as the situation grew worse the commander, the woman, ordered the five men into the lander to make an emergency landing onto the surface of Mars. She had to stay with the vessel to override the malfunctioning computer controls and it was appearing as though she may be doomed in that effort. That the ship [was] was crippled beyond expectation of repair and her life support system would not be sufficient to sustain her for a period of time. When the crew gets on to the surface of Mars, again it’s a very bumpy emergency landing, not what they expected. And in the process of landing one of the five astronauts is severely injured, leaving us with four, on the planet Mars which represents the population of the Earth. As they attempt to find the habitat, because in their emergency landing they landed way out of the way of that structure, not where they were they supposed to. They decided that they were going to try to locate it, that the necessity was if they didn’t get there their oxygen would run out in their suits, that they had, and they would not live. So they decided to venture out, to find the habitat.

One of the devices that they took with them to Mars that was on loan either from the navy [or the] or the marines, I didn’t catch that. [ Marines?] Was a robot and this particular robot had several different programming modes. The reason they were taking it to Mars is because it was going to basically be a mapper or a locating device which would be able to give them guidance on the planet’s surface. When they were “toying” around, in space before they got to Mars, the one [um] crewman that was set up to operate him was demonstrating his capacity, the robots capacity, of operating in a civilian mode as a performance robot helping people out. And the other crewman he was showing it to wasn’t impressed, so he placed it in military mode, which immediately scared the crap out of the other crewman, and he begged to put it back [in] in civilian mode, which he did. On their landing they were taking the robot with them. But, because of unforeseen circumstance in the emergency they were too heavy and either by accident or on purpose they had to jettison the cargo bay that contained the robot. And they expected him to fall onto the planet and in a crash, not survive and never see him again. When the four remaining crewmen were on the planet’s surface and they started heading toward the habitat. The first thing they noticed is that the lush fields of grain that they were expecting, least that’s what the biologists told them was going to be there generating oxygen, were nowhere around. And as they got closer to the habitat, they found out that the habitat had been intact at one time but it was now totally destroyed. As though someone had come in with something and utterly eaten the metal, the fabric, the plastic, and left shreds all over the place. There was nothing at the habitat to sustain their life and their oxygen supply was running dangerously low. What ends up happening, in this movie is eventually the robot finds them and he survived the landing. And when he approaches the four survivors he comes up to them as though he is in civilian mode going to assist them. And because of the emergency, that the four crewmen are in, they need numerous different things. They need a radio to call for help, as though that’s gonna do ‘em any good. And they need some energy and they need water and they need oxygen. And they’ve decided that this robot’s battery supply and radio system would be helpful to ‘em. And the only way to acquire that would be to decommission the robot. So the one crewman blurts out, ”Well let’s decommission the robot and we’ll take his radio and power supply.” Which the robot hears, and immediately jumps into defensive protection mode in military capacity. So at this stage of the game he attacks one of the four crewmen, the one that was threatening him, ends up “taking him out”, and then the robot disappears over the horizon. Now they are left on a hostile planet, with no oxygen, no food, and no seeming capacity for escape or rescue with their own robot that’s seeking them out to destroy them in military mode. So what don’t we understand about the democracy? That’s basically the setup that they have established in this movie on the planet. There is a rescue, the rescue does come down to a woman creating the rescue. Remember, the woman is the church, and the one to be rescued, or the ones to be rescued were the men, “the government”. But by time things get[s] down to the final wire, you’re going to find out that we haven’t got all the people that we thought we did to begin with. There’s symbolism going on all over the place, between the rescue of woman and the man, because the woman is the church and she has to bring the government back to life. It’s a resurrection [in the s’] in the nature of “The Matrix” or in the nature of someone has to die that the others can live. A type of Jesus [um] death on the cross. You have probably one of the most symbolic statements in the whole movie [is] when, the eventual survivors or whatever, leave the planet. Their final farewell to the planet is to give them a finger gesture and to state in expletive deletives that they hope they never see this planet again. Which is kind of the opinion that most of us may have about the democracy and the military government that’s ruling it, with the demise of the Republic and all the liberties. All the symbolism is there it’s kind of a neat movie, [you gotta] you gotta listen to every sentence because about once every ten minutes there’s a real gem buried in what they’re really telling you there. [uh] It’s not as great a metaphorical movie as “Mission to Mars”, which was a lot better. [um] This movie is good, special effects are very, very good. [umm] The intensity of the interest in what’s going on is pretty decent in there too so you’ll probably enjoy it. It[’s] did not have as great a opening weekend as some of the other movies lately namely, “Charlie’s Angels” seems to be going great guns for two weeks in a row now. And it is a cute movie with special effects too. [uh] But [uh] “Red Planet” has [uh] very, very good connotation to it.

As transcribed by: Majic