For Julia Fulton: MOVIES THAT SERIOUSLY QUESTION SELFHOOD The Prestige With Hugh Jackman - self-destruction as transportation-- no evidence from the outside, but thousands on internal deaths Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind With Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet - no evidence from the INSIDE, nor anywhere else-- but a lingering sense of love and the deep urge of repressed memory to reunite with the conscious self Moon with Sam Rockwell -- do you set your immediate self free, with little hope of success, or do you set free an echo of yourself that you will never know from the inside, but who IS You, somehow? Contact with Jodie Foster-- the perception of honesty, sincerity, truth and trust when the only outward evidence is self-assertion- it is my wish The Truman Show with Jim Carrey and Laura Linney -- a person is NOT a show, caricature, plot line, but a struggling defiant courageous surviving thing A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) with Stanley Kubrick post-selfhood-- the question of self can leave you trapped in a thought for eternity until, by some mechanistic act, you are awakened, providing evidence of the memory of selfhood, but not any evidence of selfhood itself Never Let Me Go - There is no saving the selfhood of a being who has no meaning to the world as a true self Minority Report, not the most dramatically, but in two ways, the most compelling being the effort it must have taken for one of three floating mindless genius telepaths to exert her selfhood to actually BE the minority report, thus calling into question the supposed criminal future of Tom Cruise Vanilla Sky, definitely, especially when the escape from Hell might be Hell itself- the question on the roof at the end - am I who I think I am , or am I the person in the coffin waiting to be freed back into life into a better future world Bicentennial Man with Robin Williams - finally, just as he dies, hundreds of years later, he is finally called a human, evolved from a robot That other Tom Cruise movie, very recent, where he and his wife are replicated many, many times to play the same role in different places... Avatar - can the soul travel out of one body and into the Avatar?
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 09:19:23 +0000
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