“Behold That Man is like the Lyre and I dart like the Plectrum, the Man Sleeps and I AM AWAKE” - Montanus of Phrygia

Thursday, August 1, 2024

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A selection of classic Late Cold War, Unipolar Moment and Early Late Imperial Western Science Fiction films which explore metaphysical concepts from a pre-metamodern, post-fordist perspective... 

                 >>> Gattaca (1997) 

Unipolar Moment film. Can determination and craft defeat a system that is rigged against you? 

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             >>> Terminator (1984)

Late Cold War film. A tale of survival, evasion and resistance against a relentless cybernetic assasin. 

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      >>> Terminator Salvation (2009)

Unipolar Moment film. The war of human resistance against the cybernetic SkyNet AI guided effort to eliminate humanity. 

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           >>> The Island (2005)

Unipolar moment classic. Escape and survival from a system of sophisticated deception. 

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               >>> The Matrix (1999)

The definitive film of Western Unipolar Moment SciFi. The trauma of emergence from a simulated virtual world into reality. 

>>> post-Metamodern sequel  >>>
       Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Western Late Imperial film. Tragedy or farce? PERFECT=FAKE. Reboots Sell. A metamodern reworking of the 1999 classic: Choice as an illusion in a modal of deterministic virtual reality. 

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 >>> The Triangle (2009)

Early Late Imperial Western psy-horror. Ordeal of sisyphus or the Naraka of no interval? You decide. 

*** Do not read any reviews of this film before you watch it or you will miss the point... 

[See also: Avīci Naraka, the Tibetan Buddhist hell of no waves and no intervals...]

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        >>> Minority Report (2002)

Unipolar moment classic. Pre-Crime is not as predetermined as it appears...free will posits alternate possibilities. 

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             >>> Vanilla Sky (2001)

Unipolar Moment film. Nightmares while uncouncious inside a cryogenics chamber. 

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Mini-reviews by Miguel Angel Torres and Emmanuel Goldstein.