Space Men

"Two minds made a movie. George Lucas' exponentially more complex storytelling and Steven Spielberg's amiably increasing Antonionisms merge for convulsive weirdness in the latest install of the Indiana Jones epic. Say what you will about its deficiencies, Skull is the most visually coherent of the series. Tossing aside the slender plots of the last two Jones films, Crystal Skull is a mutation of key themes established in Raiders, a return to form (return is a theme the film layers on), and outlines an attempt to bridge Old Testament myths with (potential) future testaments. The Jones films are about myth: how we develop myths out of past and present, and our reckless use of them and our lack of awareness of their power, whether actual or perceptual. Look closely into Skull and you'll see the act of preserving myth is the nail humans hammer dead-on into the collective coffin (the first coffin is an alien's whose sourced in an alternate dimension) and shows both real and perceptual coffins for us to relish our deaths in one day, or crystallize a way into newer tropes of time use (the goal of the film is achievable for humans only outside the film's timeline since the characters misinterpret the skull and its usefulness). Ultimately Skull will only be understood by the 9 year-olds out there in the dark that feel the magic enough to dream the solution."

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