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It can be tough to provide an original or unique analysis of this text, especially because I think it has been picked over by many other people with way more enthusiasm. I will try nonetheless though. What I always find to be fascinating about The Matrix is how dense the entire film is of literary,Continue reading “The Matrix”

Something I continually find to be interesting about this film is the earlier portion of the movie regarding our characters in a mental hospital. How the narrative is framed we see everything from the protagonist’s point of view so we, like him, believe that he shouldn’t be in the hospital. This is something that manyContinue reading “12 Monkeys and Mental Health”

Something that I find to be really clever about H.G. Wells’ work, The Time Machine, is how well it has aged. Despite being over a hundred years old it still has the ability to excite the reader and produce intrigue. This is due to Wells’ talent as an author and storyteller. What I find toContinue reading “The Time Machine”

Space imperialism may seem too obvious a topic for modern viewers of sci-fi. George Lucas had his villains comprised of an empire in his original Star Wars trilogy. Politics in space though may be too difficult to make cinematic within a film. I don’t think we need to look further than Lucas’ attempt of thisContinue reading “Dune: Space Politics”

I had the privilege last summer to watch a 35MM screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Nostalghia in theaters. I took someone with me who had never heard of the director or really knew what the film was about. I was thankful that they came but after 40 minutes into it they had fallen asleep. IContinue reading “Unapologetically Slow”

I’m no expert on silent films. I’ve seen my fair share. Probably seen more than the average fella my age. The silent medium presents several very interesting problems to the storyteller. Particularly how to demonstrate and have drama with no real dialogue. This gives birth to several silent tropes. A very common trope within thisContinue reading “Criticizing Silent Cinema”

I find one particular element of this story to be fascinating. It is how the innocent, female characters are killed seemingly for the faults of man. This happens twice within the story. First is when the character of Manya is eaten by a snake. The second is when Marya is killed by a mob. It’sContinue reading “Death of the Innocent”

I have this idea for a sci-fi property where time travelers all meet in a point of time in the future where all life on earth has almost been extinguished (from something like a nuclear holocaust or thereabouts) and nature has begun healing itself. These time travelers come to this location to escape from theirContinue reading “My million dollar sci-fi idea.”

I find the narrator’s position in the story to be absolutely fascinating. Zamyatin writes the novel completely in the second person point of view. This is where the character of the story is directly telling us, the audience, the story. What I find to be so fascinating is that I’ve never seen this concept stretchedContinue reading “D-503 as a Narrator”

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