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The film “The Matrix” delves into concepts such as the freedom of choice and the concept of reality. In the scene pictured above, the main character (Neo) faces the hero’s call to adventure; a choice: to experience the truth or to forget everything that is currently putting a halt to his life. The blue pillContinue reading “The Truth Hurts: A Glance at Wachowski’s “The Matrix””

The film “Twelve Monkeys” combines a dystopian future in which the world is ridden with a deadly virus and time travel in order to formulate extremely complex ideas about mental illness. The movie poses questions of insanity, delusions, and morality. The first shot of Cole post time travel he is inside what resembles a jailContinue reading “The Monkeys are Coming!”

Most dystopian depictions follow along the same story line. In the beginning, what appears to be a utopian society is displayed. Everyone is happy, birds are chirping, money falling from the sky…(maybe not the money but you get the picture). Then, DUN DUN DUN! The working class appears. Turns out goods and services are notContinue reading “The Rise of the Working Class: A Comparison of “Metropolis” vs. “The Time Machine””

Most of space is unexplored, unknown. Perhaps that is what makes it such a popular focus in Sci-Fi; it is a blank canvas, free to be filled with whatever one’s mind can concoct. Whether that be visitors from an unknown planet on Earth, such as in Arrival (2016), or a feud over a resource betweenContinue reading “Take on Space:A Look at the Use of Interstellar Concepts in “Dune” versus “Arrival””

What is the meaning of life? Despite all of the questions that have been answered, problems that have been solved, and truths that have been uncovered, mankind has yet to answer this question that has daunted the minds of those who are not so lucky as to be blissfully ignorant. The movie “Solaris” produced inContinue reading “Existential Reality”

The story “Nightfall” written by Isaac Asimov is set on a planet known as Lagash. One of the most extreme differences between Lagash and Earth is that Lagash has six suns. The result of being a six-sun planet is that Lagash does not know darkness, as the plant is covered by constant sunlight. Supposedly aContinue reading “An Analysis of Religion vs. Science in relation to Isaac Asimov’s “Nightfall””

Set in the year 3000, a new society of advanced humankind has risen thanks to the invention of an injection known as imperium. When a child is born, they are injected with this imperium serum. As they age, their natural abilities are heightened. Someone who once would have just been fast can now run atContinue reading “Heightened”

The Fatal Eggs by Mikhail Bulgakov tells the story of a zoologist, Persikov, who discovers what is called the ray of life. This ray supposedly accelerates the biological processes of an organism, resulting in increased speed of reproduction and larger sized organisms. While Persikov wishes his work remain private and to continue research on theContinue reading “The Satirical Eggs of Communism”

“The sun… it wasn’t our sun, evenly distributed over the mirrored surface of the sidewalks. This sun was all sharp fragments, alive somehow, constantly leaping spots, that blinded the eyes and made the head spin.” Zamyatin, Yevgeny Ivanovich, and Clarence Brown. We. Penguin Books, 1993. Throughout the novel, civilization is viewed as a safe-haven filled withContinue reading “Civilization and Wild Nature in relation to “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin”

This is just an introductory post for my blog. Included is a quote from one of my favorite Sci-Fi novels: “The Handmaid’s Tale.”