Wandering Along the Path: Right Speech

While we were walking around a reservoir, my husband and I discussed Scify movies. We'd just finished Season 3 of "The Expanse", which we both really liked. I suggested there were mainly three kinds of scify movies: the warning,the universe is bigger than us, and the beware the machines films. In the first category are climate catastrophes like "2012", "Day After Tomorrow" and "Twentyeight Days Later". Bigger than us are: "Arrival", "2001" a Space Odessy", "Independence Day", "War of the Worlds", "The Day the Earth Stood Still", Interstellar" and "Deep Impact". Machines films are: "AI", "Terminator", "Her", "Monority Report"", "Edge of Tomorrow", "Chappie", "Blade Runner" and "Forbidden Planet". Some scifys are fantasies, I guess, like "Star Wars" and "Star Trek" and "A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". Then there is "Space Balls", which I love, which spoofs the genre, and "Star Troopers". All the films can be escape, or point out problems we face as a planet. For me, in my generation so afraid of atomic war, "Terminator" expresses my fears as a teenager. "Arrival" and "Interstellar" give me hope for healing and evolution of our humanity to a higher plane. Climate fears get faced in movies like "Day After Tomorrow. During the Trump years, I loved watching "World War Z", with zombies taking over the planet. "Gut up" Brad Pitt's character told an Israeli soldier after he hacked off her hand. Indeed!