Category: Science Fiction
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As I was watching La Jetée (1962), I stumbled across an interesting trend; there seemed to be a lot of fetishization of the female character. The film’s formatting seems to mandate this, as instead of using live footage, the film is almost entirely shot with still photos, and this allows the viewer to hyper fixate…
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In Aelita: Queen of Mars (1926), an apparent alien signal from the planet Mars leads to Loss, a beleaguered engineer from Soviet Russia, building a spaceship so he can forget about his marital problems. After flying to Mars in a rocket ship with his friend Gusev, Loss falls in love with Aelita, the queen of…
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Instead of the future being an exciting entity in Minority Report, there is a sort of indifference to it, since it is already known. The world of Washington DC in 2054 is essentially a recreated mythology, with the Precogs resembling the Oracles in how they retell abstract versions of the future. But with the addition…
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