So, I was randomly bingeing on
OTT movies, I must say too much mediocrity in new movies, and so shifted to old
favorites in youtube classics like Hitchcock, sadly I have watched most of best
movies so it is mostly about how much do I remember. Over the decades I have
watched best movies of last century and can only envy people who haven’t since
imagine the exciting time in store! And then, as randomly, I came across this 1961
B&W movie “The Flight That Disappeared”, it has three scientists (to be specific, a scientist,
a rocket designer and mathematician) who's combined effort will develop weapons that would cause mass devastation in the
future, the flight they are travelling becomes stranded in space time, in some
kind of suspended animation. They are the only one who are ‘awake’ to face the
jury of people who could have been alive in future…readers can watch how the story
unfolds. My concern here is that shouldn’t we have such jury now
for future people and ofcourse other vanishing species (apart from younger people who are
actively involved in climate protest and extinction rebellion since they are
going to live longer into future than most of us hence face the consequences of
present inactions)? A jury for future lives that could have lived needs representation
to prosecute wanton polluters, compromised media controlled by greedy
billionaires and self-centered insecure policy makers. With climate
catastrophes already here while species vanishing at an alarming rate shouldn’t
the jury start the proceeding?
