Book vs. Movie

Books are always better then the movie.
Plain and simple.
In your mind you can make the perfect scenarios. The perfect people saying exactly what the author writes and picturing your own perfect settings for all the characters to fluidly interact with.
And then the movie comes in, and it doesn't pair up to your fantasy.
It's never going to add up to your own fantasy. Your fantasy is always going to be better to you specifically, then anybody else's interpretation.
Especially after you've put countless of hours and all of your emotional attachment to this one character and then a director casts an imperfect actor to play the part of your beloved antagonist.
Also that's all a movie is. A movie is an interpretation and condensed  version of a novel. If the screen writer put all the internal dialogue and detail that a novelist can put into hundreds of pages. First of all that would be such a long movie and you would get extremely bored. Secondly if a screen writer could actually do that in a 2 hour and 30 minutes time period i applaud them.
But what really erks me is when people say the movie wasn't exactly like the book. Of course it wasn't exactly like the book. that's absolutely impossible if they want to make a profit. People need to understand this when they watch a movie. It is a completely different medium and interpretation and you shouldn't let that ruin the fact that it was a good movie in it's self. Or a completely shit movie depending on what your watching.

Education

So recently i went to go see the new movie based off the Orson Scott Card novel Enders Game. In this movie young children are taught to become strategical and tactical military masterminds. The military heads have become obsessed with the pursuit of the best and brightest children on this earth to be molded into high-tech warriors. There mission is to permanently eliminate the alien threat (buggers) that had nearly conquered the earth 50 years prior. So the education of these children is a really big thing in this world. When a child is born a monitor is embedded in the brain stem so the military can monitor the children as they mature and grow. Through this monitor they can see and hear everything that the children can see and hear. The generals in charge of this system nit pick all the children who they find worthy to increase there knowledge.  If a child is not picked to move on to the next school its a humongous deal to the student and the students family. The government even controls how many children ea. family has so they can easily monitor every single one of them and  if there where humongous amount of people to monitor they couldn't monitor them all. Also so every family has the same amount of chance to have one of their children become a great commander. But it all comes back to education. 

In this process the children have an unlimited and structurally personalized information at their disposal. Ea. child is given a desk, this is a powerful computer, similar to a real-life tablet computers but specifically for learning. On this computer they were not allowed any outside distractions. They couldn't even email there family at some points. The games, the free time activities, everything in their battle school is focused around bettering themselves intellectually. But most importantly they have everything they want in the palm of there hands. They have interactive 3D models, holographic projections, and small concentrated classes with students who want to learn.
If we could transfer some of these basic building blocks to all schools. Maybe if we cared more about the education and the morals of the next generation before they become a nuisance to the society maybe we wouldn't have so much crime or poverty.  Maybe if we could try to make learning bearable for young children. If we only shell more into our education, we wouldn't need to shell so much into poverty and crime control. The children naturally want to learn. But the school system makes it very difficult for the children to pursue knowledge.

Gun Control

Guns don't kill people.
 People kill people.
 But if we didn't have guns.
We wouldn't have this problem.
 But we actually need guns to protect ourselves because without guns we would have no power.
Over our people and other countries.
But if we used them only for protection it would be great.
 That isn't possible because people fear death, guns kill people, so people fear guns.
Guns mean power and in stupid hands guns mean massive death.
Which, no matter which way you look at it, means that there is going to be massive deaths.
There are going to be senseless killing because there are stupid people and the accessibility of getting a gun is so easy.
Think about this, for a second. What if they're was a way to tell the persons intentions truthfully before giving them a powerful weapon.
What if there was a way to make sure the person we are allowing to have a gun will not use it for wrong purposes?
The only way we could do this is probably drugging people or delving into there brains to pull out what they're actually thinking without lying.
 This way we could tell if they are a psychopath or will ever have psychopathic tendencies.
So if our understanding of functional MRI's and the connection between the brain activity in a psychopath and the brain activity in a normal human being improve.
We could have people take an MRI before buying a gun, so we know that, the person we are giving power, is trustworthy.
We all know now that there's stupid people and i think this is the only way we could truly know if someone's going to go kill 21 children with a gun they bought at Walmart.
 Where right now there are no re-precautions, except and id and a contract.
 But that doesn't tell us anything about the trustworthiness of some human beings.
 All that does is waste paper.