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This is the movie that does well on repeat viewings. I watched it over 30 times and stopped counting. It clearly has no flaws that's why repeat viewing is easy. Starts slow win Zane Ziminsky identifies a star with intelligent signals but is fired at NASA, and his boss clearly destroys evidence, and go to unimaginable length to keep it silent. While Zane Ziminsky is worked for a cable television to get by, he tries to construct his own version of radio telescope using Phase Array for a cheaper version, but equally effective. Identifies the signal again, but this comes from the bounce of an earth base signal in Mexico of the same signal, which means they were talking to each other! So he goes see Carl, his assistant, but before that happens, he gets murdered. Another scientist on Green house gases, tries to get data from NASA, but everything seems wrong, no data, but she did identify green house gases comes from Mexico. So both Zeminsky and the women scientist independently traveled to Mexico. This is a classic Sci Fi, introducing the concepts of phase array, green house emissions, global warming, terraforming (to make it inhabitable on earth!), and then some. It is the most seriously under rated movie of all time, and if introduced in theaters it will stun intelligent viewer, but didn't take it, as theaters go for explosions, crashes, etc. but it would have been as good as category as Gattaca, but Gattaca as plot holes, this one is clearly the best.

The story is about Byran Bingham who works as an outside consultant who fires people for a living because their own bosses don't like firing them. So he makes his living flying from one place to another firing people. The story picks up when they hire a new college graduate, Natalie Keener who is to use the internet to fire people to save money by not traveling. This causes Bryan's own zone of comfort outside down and faced being grounded and thinks that Natalie doesn't know the details of what it is like to fire people. Also along the way, Bryan meets a women Alex, who has the same personality of traveling as he does. Unfortunately I won't mention how the story ends, but it has a couple of loose ends, for instance, during the marriage of one of his sisters, the groom asked him about his own married life, and ask him "what's the point?" to which he responds that he needs a "co-pilot" and his life is about getting rid of excess baggage in his life. The story I believes ends being "pointless". It would have improved the plane have crashed, got fired, and had sister to support him that he realized that there is more to life then just flying and firing and people are simply not excess baggage and can be as important to you as your hands and feet. At least this story I prefer to end as less then pointless. There's no spoilers here, just my own alternative ending. I feel the story is somewhat empty.

In the movie, after receiving an award, Gail Gayle mentions "Life is like an Onion, you peel away and the story becomes different, but when you peel everything away, everything is all a lie" as part of her News acceptance award speech. The speech represents the entire story that is like a modern day Aesop fable. Dustin Hoffman plays small time criminal who accidentally saved the life of 54 people when the plane crash landed in front of him, but someone else took the credit. Our life is basically conditioned to think that people should be given credit where credit is due, in real life, credit isn't given where credit is due. The other problem about events or historical events is that life is like an onion. When you peel them all away, nothing is really there. Things we view as hero may be not we think it is, because of our prejudices in what we view them as a perfect hero. A real hero may have none of that, we humans are full of gray areas, some we are good, some we are not so good. There's not such thing as 100% good guys and 100% bad guys. So if you have to watch this movie, what we know what we see, is not what we think it is. If you should die one day, become a spirit, you will realize that everything we hold dear and true, we're not even close. That's the Aesop of the movie. The best part of the movie is Dustin Hoffman's is at his finest, there's simply not enough screen time for him because he's just so interesting to watch. This is a highly underrated film and if you keep the idea mentioned here in perspective, you will enjoy the movie more. Just peel away your onions!