Languorous & Langoliers

Haylie 2022-02-07 14:50:24

Due to curiosity about the meaning of the title, I checked langoliers and didn't get an interpretation, but I got the near-phonetic word languorous, which is lazy, an adjective. I speculate that this is the prototype of the names of the monsters in the movie, the name of laziness represents death, and the laziness and death feed on it. I think this kind of character should be set up like a black hole, not a living monster with swarms and sharp teeth.
Speaking of characters, I really like Toomey and Mr. Good Sleep. And the blind woman had the face of a prophet, everything was gone, and she looked like she needed to protect the innocent. Fortunately, Mr. Toomey ended her with a knife, which was really happy.
There may be some disagreements and doubts about the logic of the film. For example, if people disappeared and left their belongings and even wigs and dentures, why did they leave no clothes. If the protagonists arrive in a future earlier than they should be, the future will not be empty airports, and then people will be instantaneous (when the airport has a closing time, there will be people at any time). Everything should be functioning normally, because other passers-by are subordinate to time, then the time machine is always running, and other passers-by should also exist from the beginning. This point reminds me of the plot of the horror cruise ship, which will produce the overlapping of characters, and I will meet myself in the same space. This film focuses on the passage of time. If they travel to the future instead of the present, then they will always be in the future, and time will not be reversed in the same space, so it can only be said that the time here can only be simply considered that the story is only Two times are set, one in the crack, one outside the crack, and the time outside the crack is safe. If different times really appear, then multiple cracks, multiple entrances and exits will be needed, and multiple avatars of characters will appear and even meet at different times. And think of the plane as a capsule, which explains why the matches in the plane are flammable, and the beer and soft drinks are fresh, temporarily preserving everything in the plane and not being affected by the acceleration of time. Also, at the first landing site, if everything starts to expire and are of inferior quality, then these gradual phenomena can also appear in the collapse of trees and buildings, but monsters appear, and it is through monsters that end all this, not time. Self-generated, such a character's appearance may be just an iconographic symbol, which is actually untenable, like the fiction of Toomey's father, and as comical and artificial as the monster image we see.

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Extended Reading
  • Kasey 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    When yesterday left us, all living things followed, leaving only a world like a still life in the past, where the space-time cleaners will devour it to the void; and another future world like a still life, Quietly waiting for us to go. The telepathy of the blind little girl is from the Shining Universe, and the fact that she must fall asleep when she travels through the time-space tunnel is the law of the Thinking Universe.

  • Cyril 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    Classic suspense work.

The Langoliers quotes

  • Craig Toomy: Time? What the hell do YOU know about time? Ask ME about time, ask ME!

  • Craig Toomy: You wanna know how much money I made for you?

    Tom Holby: Yes.

    Craig Toomy: I didn't make any money for you!

    [crawls onto the boardroom table]

    Craig Toomy: I DIDN'T MAKE ANY MONEY FOR YOU! I lost money for you! I lost forty-three million dollars, and I did it deliberately! I did it deliberately! I DID IT DELIBERATELY!

    [laughs, then looks up and sees that Holby has been replaced by his father]

    Roger Toomy: You fool. You stupid fool!