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Tag Archives: science fiction
The Stepford Wives (1975)
The Stepford Wives (1975) – dir. Bryan Forbes Sexism “Feminism” in Hollywood is code for “give her boots and a gun.” From the silent era to Sucker Punch, female characters exist primarily to cater to male fantasies. In 1975, The Stepford … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryan Forbes, dystopia, Fembots, feminism, film, Ira Levin, Katharine Ross, movie reviews, movies, objectification, science fiction, sexism, Stepford, Sucker Punch, The Stepford Wives
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Metropolis: A Proto-Fascist Anti-Utopia
Metropolis is director Fritz Lang’s most famous work. The 1927 German silent classic is renowned for its epic German Expressionist style and its sweeping influence on the science-fiction genre. Here, it is the first entry in 45.1 Dystopias, and I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Adolf Hitler, dystopias, fascism, film, Fritz Lang, Joseph Goebbels, Metropolis, movies, Nazi Party, Nazis, science fiction, silent film, TSPDT
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How To Tell If You’re In A Dream
How do we know we’re in the “real reality” and not in a dreamlike state, in someone else’s dream, in Tommy Westphall’s snow globe, in The Matrix, a brain in a vat, in Plato’s Cave, on The Truman Show or creations in The Sims 12? As Nolan demonstrates in Inception, we can’t.
Last month, director Errol Morris wrote a New York Times series on ‘The Anosognosic’s Dilemma.’ It’s about Rumsfeld’s “unknown unknowns.” We simply don’t know when we don’t know the limits of our own knowledge, either individually or collectively. Continue reading
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Tagged Christopher Nolan, dreams, epistemology, film, Inception, Leonardo DiCaprio, movies, philosophy, religion, science, science fiction
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Review – Splice (2010)
Recommended For: Sci-fi fans, especially those of the particular subject matter at hand (biological engineering) Splice is a movie impossible to recommend well without spoiling it. Simply stating the fact that there are important spoilers is a spoiler in itself. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrien Brody, film, genetic engineering, movies, science fiction, Splice, Vincenzo Natali
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