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Reality & regret -- Twelve Monkeys |
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Ideas for your Journal:
How does film (especially science fiction) represent society's anxiety about itself at this point in time? How does science fiction use science fiction to create a discourse of nostalgia, positing that one is grieving (in anticipation) the loss of self, identity, and continuity (in the form of children or a future)? How does time travel suggest an erasure of lived experience, leaving one with the possibility that "nothing ever really happened" and thus introducing another level of the tragic, in the sense that we are made consciously aware of the fatal flaw of mortality, and the equally tragic flaw -- the desire to continue with what we know as humanity? How does THE MATRIX explore what it means to be human? |
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