How far would you go to save the life of the one you love?
This movie is one of the few that made me cry. Movies don’t usually make me cry. And this movie didn’t just make me drop a few tears, it really stirred some very deep emotions. The Fountain (2006) features Rachel Weisz and Hugh Jackman. It was written and directed by Darren Aronofsky. The summary: Three stories – one each from the past, present, and future – about men in pursuit of eternity with their love. A conquistador in Mayan country searches for the tree of life to free his captive queen; a medical researcher, working with various trees, looks for a cure that will save his dying wife; a space traveler, traveling with an aged tree encapsulated within a bubble, moves toward a dying star that’s wrapped in a nebula; he seeks...
Would you enter the mind of a serial killer to save a girl’s life?
For this week’s sci-fi movie anaylis I’d like to discuss the movie The Cell (2000), featuring Jennifer Lopez and Vince Vaughn and directed by Tarsem Singh. This is not a sci-fi in the classical sense, as there is no space traveling. Instead, there is mind traveling. It’s got all the traits of a good psychological thriller. Minor spoilers ahead The plot summary: Catharine Deane is a psychotherapist who is part of a revolutionary new treatment which allows her mind to literally enter the mind of her patients. Her experience in this method takes an unexpected turn when an FBI agent comes to ask for a desperate favour. They had just tracked down a notorious serial killer, Carl Stargher, whose MO is to abduct women one at a time and place them in a...
What would you do if mankind was about to go extinct in 50 years?
Minor spoilers ahead! A violent world where man can no longer procreate, and we are about to go extinct. That is the future of our world in Children of Men (2006), featuring Clive Owen and Michael Cane. A summary: Set in 2027, when no child has been born for 18 years and science is at loss to explain the reason, African and East European societies collapse and their dwindling populations migrate to England and other wealthy nations. In a climate of nationalistic violence, a London peace activist turned bureaucrat Theo Faron, joins forces with his revolutionary ex-wife Julian in order to save mankind by protecting a woman who has mysteriously became pregnant. Children of Men tells a fascinating story. It’s set in a near future and people are still like us....
What would you do if you could travel in time?
If you’ve followed my blog for a while now, you probably know that I enjoy discussing philosophical topics. I’m a fan of sci-fi, particularly movies and TV shows. I’ve always appreciated them for the philosophical themes, because in a way, nearly every story in the sci-fi genre has one. “What if there were aliens?” is a pretty common one. Or “what if our creations – robots – become stronger than we?” is very common too. I like thinking about our future, personally. Whenever I read news articles regarding technology, I often wonder where our future will take us. About augmented reality: “will we still see the world with our own eyes in two hundred years?” or about the increasing lifespan of the human...
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