I’m cheating a bit as I’ve already seen this terrific film. While it is still early, I can already safely say this is my favorite of the year so far, and it has a good chance of being my favorite for the entire year. Yay for hard science fiction masterpieces!
This low budget science fiction film follows a different kind of alien invasion, as illegal immigrants in Mexico jack into the US electronic infrastructure to perform manual labor remotely, running various construction robots and doing other meniable labor through the Interent. This film won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn rave reviews everywhere it has played along the festival circuit.
I was a bit of a bookworm growing up. Oh sure I played outside and excelled at sports and was an all around active lad who spent hours outside on any average day, but I loved me some books. You see, I was the kind of 8 year old boy who found the idea of reading an Encyclopedia to be just as exciting and fun as watching your average Transformers episode. But since we didn’t have cable I spent far more time reading then I did watching the heroic Autobots defeating the evil Decepticons.
It didn’t take me long to discover I loved science, all shapes and sizes of science. I started reading books on homemade experiments one could try. I took computer classes and self-taught myself BASIC so I could write my own computer games. I used my microscope and a neighbors stagnant pond as an excuse to introduce myself to the wonderful universe populated with paramecium and amoebas. My mother even tells a tale of my exploits during a family vacation to The Smithsonian. It seems I happened to explain to my older sister why a Blue Whale was also a baleen whale. I was six years old at the time of this incident.
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