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No, I meant that I liked the film, but I found the plot to be a major distraction.
*SPOILER ALERT*
It's selective storytelling.
Selective or not, they don't give us much reason to believe this.
Other than the characters' personal passions to believe it...
Everyone knows of the spirits because they've invaded their lives. They don't know that they're ghosts: they think they're living forms of life.
ghost Pronunciation Key (gst) n.
1.The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living
persons or to haunt former habitats.
2.The center of spiritual life; the soul.
3.A demon or spirit.
4.A returning or haunting memory or image.
Actually, the first dictionary I found listed "Phantom" as an alternate word. IIRC, this is what people called the apparition within the film itself. Spirit/Phantom/Ghost do not have the exact same definition, but they're not really all that different either. So to say 'I know about the phantoms, but don't give me this bilge about ghosts' is very bizarre.
Everyone knows the doctor's theory already.
Everyone in the movie...the people who walk into the movie theater get a 30-second dissertation. "True" 'Final Fantasy' fans would already know this (but wonder what this had to do with 'Final Fantasy') but an average filmgoer is going to get confused very quickly...and the film has just started.
The General was a little too Cartoonish of a bad guy compared to everyone else, at least they give us a reason behind his emotional instability. (That rational behind him _deliberately_ allowing the phantoms into the city was terrible though... If he needed an "incident" and if he actually cared about human life he would find a more controlled environment than an entire city. Not buying it...)
Actually, there's a mathematical model that correlates to the speed of major advancements in technology (mass-production, modern medicine, personal computers). It says that, by 2012, the rate of life-changing advancements will reach infinity.
Not seeing it. If anything we're seeing something of a slowdown.
Granted, real life phenomena could easily change the year that this occurs (such as the major catastrophe that is slated to happen on December 21, 2012, "coincidentally" the same date the mathematical model proposes we reach a near-infinite rate of development). It's all theory, but it does have some evidence alongside it.
Ah, the Mayan calendar again...Hrmmm. Interesting.