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
  • Adolfo 2022-03-19 09:01:09

    A very creative story core setting that, although it looks like an old-fashioned time travel setting, is integrated with the concept of the original universe's offline universe. Stephen King is good at pulling and interacting between characters and group portraits in an unusual state. The suspenseful plot progresses in series. The past demons and the current conflicts are intertwined. The closed-space horror atmosphere and absurdity with a slightly wicked taste are intertwined. It is very allegorical when combined with some real events.

  • Cheyanne 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    If the ending is changed to this: the people who have passed through the cracks in time have partially lost their memories due to low air pressure and other unknown factors. This group of people did not reach the future but wandered in the whirlpool of the past, and once again found that the matches could not be lit, Once again embarking on a journey to escape the Langoliers, once again making the choice to give up life...

The Langoliers quotes

  • Bob Jenkins: Let's say that every now and then a hole appears in the stream of time. Not a time-warm. A rip. A time rip. A rip in the central fabric.

    Don Gaffney: That's the craziest thing I ever heard of!

    Craig Toomy: Amen!

    Bob Jenkins: Mr. Gaffney, the situation we're in right now, this is crazy. So let's say that such rips do occur every now and then. It would be similar to rare weather phenomenons that are reported. Upside-down tornadoes, circular rainbows, daytime starlight.

    Captain Brian Engle: The aurora borealis.

    Bob Jenkins: [Bob looks to Brian in surprise] What?

    Captain Brian Engle: There was an aurora borealis over the Mojavi Desert when we left LAX. We were supposed to fly right into it.

    Bob Jenkins: Then that's it. An auroa over the desert. That strengthens my point. If we were to fly into that, and it was a time-rip then that means we're no longer in our own time, ladies and gentlemen.

  • Don Gaffney: [listening to Jenkins' time rip theory] That's the craziest thing I've ever heard.

    Craig Toomy: Amen!