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That said, Star Trek: Insurrection, the newest installment of the Next Generation story, is still a decent and entertaining film. Returning to a classically moralistic Star Trek storyline, the movie follows the crew of the Starship Enterprise as they stumble upon a sinister plot to uproot an peaceful agricultural race, the Ba'ku and steal their planet. Just as in the days of Captain Kirk, Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) must disobey a direct order from a Starfleet admiral in order to do what he feels is right...
...characters and the whole Star Trek atmosphere. If you haven't heard of "the Federation," "Starfleet," and "the Prime Directive," then you probably won't be too excited by this installment. Naturally, all the important details are explained, making it possible for anyone to understand, but just understanding the plot won't be enough for most viewers...
People know a good story when they hear one. We are a narrative species: our brains function as storytelling organs in our frontal lobes, which, say neuroscientists, distinguish us from other animals. Evolution is a story, a beauty. We're stories as individuals; our DNA writes the plot, sometimes the theme. It is thought that children acquire language to tell the story that is already in them. Only a few weeks ago, the pure-science linguist Noam Chomsky, in another change of mind, said he now thinks a divine power gave us language in a single, inspired stroke...
Some films deal in plot truth; this one expresses emotional truth, the heart's search for saving wisdom, in some of the most luscious imagery since Malick's last film, the 1978 Days of Heaven. The new movie takes up where Days--and his haunting Badlands of 1973--left off. Each film is a tragedy of small folks with too grand goals; each is narrated by a hick with a dreamy touch of the poetic; each sets its tiny humans against Nature in ferocious rhapsody. The Thin Red Line begins with an island idyll, and to Private Witt (Jim Caviezel...
GODZILLA Size matters, but so do plot, character development, suspense, directing...