INDIANA DAD AND THE PLASTIC SKULL

By Farah Yurdozu

Although I didn’t expect too much I must confess that I am frustrated with “Indiana Jones and Kingdom of The Crystal Skull”.

I saw the movie last week in a fairly empty theather.

Crystal Skull doesn’t tell us anything that we don’t know about the secret or the reality of the UFOs. The movie overall has so many gaps of logic. At the beginning Soviet agents are trying to find the famous 1947 alien body in Nevada. Their leader is a psychic spy lady and they desperately need the alien body. But for some reason that we don’t know, after they get it, between all those race and chasing they suddenly lose it on the way and nobody seems worried at all!

The next stop is a South American temple where the crystall skull is hidden. The skull has cosmic / paranormal powers as far as we understand. But what we don’t understand is why it looks so cheap and plastic?

I wish the production would get a better skull to convince us that what Indy holds in his hands is a real one piece heavy crystall artifact. But no... under the spot lights it looks so plastic, so artificial and so light.

Meanwhile Indiana Jones’ ex girl friend enters and lets him know that he has a son of 20 years old! Now it is a “Family Triangle” not a Bermuda one. Indiana accepts the role of a responsible father between jumping from the waterfalls and figthing against a group of half naked natives ( who have no apparent reason to be in the film except to chase Indy ).

Family ties, an old but unforgotten love and the crystal skull is given back to where it belongs. And later? The classical “Spielberg” type alien goes back to cosmos leaving behind us with questions in our mind.

This is my very personal opinion but I believe that UFO / ET concept is cheaply used in this production. It doesn’t bring anything new that we don’t know. Or it doesn’t ask anything new which was never asked before.

Using the UFO / ET concept must not be so ordinary and easy. Thank god, we don’t take this last adventure seriously.