movie review week 6

 Oblivion

In 2077, Earth has been ravaged from war with an extraterrestrial invader sixty years prior. The Moon was destroyed, causing earthquakes and tsunamis, while humans allegedly used nuclear weapons for a costly victory. Humanity is now relocating to Saturn's moon Titan via the "Tet", a large tetrahedron-shaped space station. On Earth, Tech 49 Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) and his partner and lover Victoria "Vika" Olsen (Andrea Riseborough) are among the few humans left on Earth. Stationed at Tower 49 in the formernortheastern United States, they are instructed by mission controller Sally (Melissa Leo) to protect the gigantic offshore fusion energy generators, which are generating power for the colonists on Titan, from attacks by Scavs, a small force of marauding aliens who remained on Earth. The generators are protected by both Drones and Jack's regular reconnaissance from his ship. Despite having had a memory wipe, Jack experiences visions of being on the observation deck of the Empire State Building with an unknown woman before the war. When not on patrol, Jack secretly spends time at a small lake-side house he has built.

Jack detects a Scav beacon signal emitted from the Empire State Building that is sending coordinates on Earth. Perplexed, he terminates the signal, only to witness a pre-invasion spacecraft, the Odyssey, fall to the earlier specified coordinates. Investigating the wreckage, Jack finds several working stasis chambers, including one containing Julia (Olga Kurylenko), the woman from his visions. A drone arrives at the crash site and starts shooting at the stasis chambers, killing the humans inside. Jack saves Julia and brings her back to Tower 49, where he revives her and is surprised that she knows his name, though Vika distrusts her. The next day Jack and Julia return to the wreckage of the Odyssey to retrieve its flight recorder. The Scavs arrive and capture Jack and Julia, secure the flight recorder, and take them to their base at Raven Rock Mountain Complex. The Scavs are not aliens but human survivors, led by Malcolm Beech (Morgan Freeman). Beech wants Jack's help to destroy the Tet by reprogramming a captured drone to take unstable fuel cells to the Tet, where they will explode. He says everything that Jack knows is a lie, but Jack disbelieves him; Beech releases them, saying the truth can be found in one of the forbidden radiation zones.

En route back to Tower 49, Jack and Julia go to the Empire State Building, Julia tells Jack that she was his wife. Their team, which included Vika, was heading towards Titan when they encountered the Tet, an alien ship, and was diverted to investigate it. Since she was in stasis, she doesn't know what happened after they left. They fly back to Tower 49 but Vika, monitoring their movements, refuses entry and reports to Sally that she and Jack are now an ineffective team. Sally activates a disabled drone hidden inside the tower that kills Vika but is destroyed by Julia. Jack and Julia escape with the other drones in pursuit. Jack's ship is totally damaged and they jettison in the forbidden zone, which turns out to lack the warned-of radioactivity. They encounter Tech 52 Jack, an exact clone of Jack, and during a scuffle Julia is shot. Seeing Julia, Tech 52 Jack falters and experiences the same visions Tech 49 Jack experienced. After incapacitating and tying up Jack 52, Tech 49 Jack flies to Tower 52, finding a Vika clone there. He obtains medical supplies and returns to treat a wounded Julia.

After an evening at the lake-house, the two return to the Scavs. Beech reveals that the Tet is the hostile alien force, mining the Earth's resources while eliminating humanity. After the Tet destroyed the Moon, it sent an army of Jack clones to invade Earth to kill humans, and nukes were launched to defend. Afterwards, Jack and Vika clones were tasked to maintain the drones that monitor and protect the generators from human survivors.

"Sally" sends drones to breach the complex, which Jack helps the others defend. Beech is gravely injured and the captured drone is damaged beyond repair. The humans try to regroup but fear an imminent attack. With Julia's consent, Jack communicates with the Tet via Sally, agreeing to turn over Julia to her. After saying 'goodbye' and placing Julia in a stasis chamber, Jack flies to the Tet while listening to the Odyssey '​s flight recorder and learning the fate of its commander, astronaut Jack Harper: he, Vika and Julia were crew members aboard the Odyssey, which was originally an exploration mission to Titan. The mission was re-routed by the real Sally at mission control to investigate the Tet, then near Saturn's orbit and therefore close to the original trajectory. Originally appearing inactive, the Tet began to pull the spacecraft towards it. Sensing danger, Jack jettisons the sleep module, an emergency escape pod programmed to orbit Earth, to save the crew members in stasis. Jack and Vika are captured by unseen aliens.

While entering the Tet, escorted by two drones, Jack glides past thousands of pods containing Jack and Vika clones. Upon final interrogation, he tells a doubting "Sally" he believes Julia would make a better partner for him and is granted access into the Tet's main control center. Now deep inside the Tet, Jack unloads and opens the sleep chamber which surprisingly contains Beech and a fuel cell bomb. They trigger the bomb, destroying the Tet and shutting down the attacking drones before they reach the human base. On Earth, Julia awakens from the stasis chamber at the lake-house in time to see the Tet destroyed. Three years later, Julia and her young daughter are living in the lake-house. Members of the human resistance arrive across the lake from the house and Jack Harper 52 emerges from the crowd smiling at Julia.

Oblivion. A mind blowing story that shows us that we are not always right, even though we think we are at the first attempt. The story line gave a big impact to me as a human being. If Tet really exist in this world, I'm pretty sure I'm not capable to fight them like the Scavengers did, so I need to dig more about this universe, keep doing research and I can defeat Tet. The ending of this story is really a shock plot twist as I expected Jack Harper Tower 44 to come back instead of Jack Harper Tower 52. Yeah, the same face, the same body and exactly the same soul but if I were Julia, the love will never be the same. 

vocabulary week 6

NO	WORD	TYPES OF WORD	MEANING	SAMPLE SENTENCE
1	Stupendous	adjective	So large or great that it amazes you	The stupendous engineering feats achieved by the ancient Romans.
2	consummate	adjective	Very good or skillful, very bad	The consummate artist managed to produce a very stupendous portrait.
3	peerless	adjective	Having no equal , better than all others	The show’s enduring success was a testimony to the peerless talents of its ensemble cast.
4	wane	verb	To become smaller or less	The scandal caused her popularity to wane.
5	stellar	adjective	Very good, outstanding	The miniature palm tree is a stellar example of the art of bonsai.
6	pertinent	adjective	Relating to the thing that is being thought about or discussed	He impressed the jury with his concise , pertinent answers to the attorney’s questions.
7	innocuous	Adjective	Not likely to bother or offend anyone, causing no injury, harmless	Those innocuous lies we must tell every day if society is the remain civil.
8	forcible	Adjective	Made or done by physical force or violence	The boy has a forcible mother as he is very lazy.
9	indelible	adjective	Impossible to remove or forget , producing marks that cannot be erased	Winning the state basketball championship was our team’s most indeliable experience.
10	voracious	adjective	Having or showing a tendency to eat very large amounts of food	My varacious hamster eats a lot of sunflower seeds.
11	reprimand	verb	To speak in angry and critical way to (someone who has done something wrong, disobeyed an order)	Aina reprimanded Farah as Farah  broke her favourite vase.
12	disbar	verb	To take away the right of a lawyer to work in the legal profession.	The lawyer had been disbarred as he is guilty in a fraud.
13	suborn	verb	To persuade someone to do something illegal (such as to lie in a court of law)	The lawyer is suborned by the wealthy family to prove that the defendant is not guilty although he is the real murderer.
14	clandestine	adjective	Done in a private place or way, done secretly	I took a clandestine peek at the price tag on the diamond necklace.
15	egregious	adjective	Very bad and easily noticed	The student’s theme was marred by a number of egrecious errors in spelling.
16	avert	verb	To turn your eyes,gaze etc away or aside / to prevent something bad from happening	He sped up and averted an accident.
17	Mollify	verb	To make someone less angry , to calm  someone down	An apology would probably mollify your friend.
18	instigate	verb	To cause something to happen or begin	The charge that the scene in the movie had instigated teenagers to commit similar acts of vandalism.
19	foment	verb	To cause or try to cause the growth or development of something bad or harmful	The act of the students had foment  fight at the school.
20	devolve	verb	Pass on or delegate to another	The company was full of managers known for devolving tasks to lower management , but never doing much work themselves.
21	archaic	adjective	So old as to appear to belong to a different period	Wants to look intelligent, Mary used archaic English when talking to her friends.
22	tawdry	adjective	Tastelessly showy,cheap and shoddy	Carol expected to see a modern house but she was surprised to see a tawdry.
23	elusive	adjective	Difficult to capture or difficult to remember	Many first time skydivers say that describing the act of falling from the sky is elusive.
24	fawn	verb	Try to gain favor by extreme flattery	The media fawned over the handsome new CEO ,praising his impeccable sense of style instead of asking more pointed questions.
25	convivial	adjective	Describing a lively atmosphere	The wedding reception was convivial , as many people came to the weeding.

vocabulary week 5

No.	word	Type of word	meaning	Sample sentence
1	irascible	adjective	Becoming angry easily ,having bad temper	The professor becoming increasingly irascible in laters year whenever he was opposed.
2	taciturn	adjective	Tending to be quiet ,not speaking frequently	A taciturn man, he almost never initiaes a  conversation .
3	voluble	adjective	Talking a lot in an energetic and rapid way	She is a voluble girl as she really likes to greet people.
4	contrite	adjective	Feeling or showing regret for bad behavior	Being contrite is not enough to spare you an arrest if you are caught shoplifting.
5	verdant	adjective	Green with growing plants	A beautiful , verdant field behind my house.
6	sparse	adjective	Present only in a small amount ,thinly covering an area	The area has a sparse vegetation.
7	jovial	adjective	Full og happiness and joy	The trip to the amusement park but everyone in a jovial mood.
8	amicable	adjective	Showing a polite and friendly desire to avoid disagreement and argument	The contract negotiations between the hotel workers and management were reasonably amicable.
9	hostile	adjective	Relating to an enemy ,not friendly , unpleasant or harsh	Our landlord has a hostile attitude toward foreigners and refuses to rent to them.
10	antipathy	noun	A strong feeling of dislike	I feel no antipathy towards any of my opponents.
11	nomenclature	Noun	A system of names for things especially in science	The nomenclature , “tuxedo “  derives from the fact that the jacket first became popular in the resort area of Tuxedo Park ,New York.
12	cumbersome	Adjective	Hard to handle or to manage because of size or weight	A long-handled wrench that is too cumbersome for tight spots , such as under the sink.
13	facile	adjective	Too simple, not showing enough thought or effort, done or achieved in a way that is too easy.	A few early facile victories misled the country into thinking  that the war would be  short and relatively painless.
14	mislead	verd	To cause someone to believe something that is not true	The coral snake’s attractive colours can mislead you into thinking that it is harmless.
15	allegation	noun	A statement saying that someone has done something wrong or illegal	His reputation become bad by the allegations of fraud.
16	fraud	noun	The crime of using dishonest methods to take something valuable from another person, deceit, trickery	He was found guilty of bank fraud.
17	vindicate	verb	To show that someone is not guilty.	Recent discoveries have generally vindicated the physicist’s theories.
18	Indict	verb	To charge with fault or offense	The grand jury could indict the mayor for fraud.
19	blemish	verb	To make something imperfect or less beautiful	His face is blemished when he get the scar.
20	exonerate	verb	To prove that someone is not guilty of a crime	The results of the DNA fingerprinting finally exonarated the man , but only after he had wasted 10 years of his life in prison.
21	tarnish	verb	To damage or ruin the good quality of something	The news statement  about the man tarnished his reputation.
22	condone	verb	To forgive or approve something wrong	He is too quick to condone his friend’s faults.
23	meager	adjective	Very small in amount	Ever since he started the diet,his dinners have been more meager than he would like.
24	evanescent	adjective	Lasting a very short time	Beauty that is as evanescent as a rainbow.
25	stupendous	adjective	awesome	Atiqah is stupendous  athlete as she can run very fast.