History Repeats Itself

I went to see M. Night Shyamalan's 'The Happening' today and the funny thing is, I kept thinking of all the other natural disaster movies where nature decides to kick man's ass. If you haven't seen the movie then don't read any further. Basically, Nature gets pissed with the way humans rape it and decide to communicate through wind to have plants release neurotoxins. It causes a person to loose all sense of emotions, walk backwards, and find the closest means of committing suicide. Some of the scenes were pretty gruesome (except for a cheesy part where a man feeds himself to some lions at the zoo...it looked really fake). Overall, I thought it was a pretty good movie but I just couldn't help myself think about the past "nature revenge" movies. Alfred Hitchcock made 'The Birds' and Steven King made 'Maximum Overdrive.' Okay Maximum Overdrive was not nature causing problems per say but you get the picture. Now we finally have a movie for the 21st century to cause large mass histeria of disillusioned "what ifs!!!" What if nature decides to tell plants via w-mail (wind mail) to release toxins to specifically tell our brain through extremely complex ion channels interacting with membrane proteins to make us lose control of our emotions, motor skills, and rational making us shove a twig in our jugular...scary!!!