But there’s much more to this dark tale of the American dream gone awry. Horny suburban dad obsesses over his daughter’s friend, a vapid cheerleader. Unfortunately for the beings, the protagonist is unwittingly gifted with their own powers of psychokinesis, and a challenge for domination ensues. Read more: Collection of essays on The Matrixĭo you ever feel like you’re playing a role? Released 1 year before The Matrix, another film introduced the concept of a hidden beings controlling the destiny of humanity.ĭark City follows Rufus Sewell, a man framed for murder, as he’s pursued by faceless super beings that can manipulate time.
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Many of the characters, from the smarmy marketing executive (Jude Law), to the angry nihlistic firefighter (Mark Walberg) act out the various philosophies of the past thousand years. I Heart Huckabees is a quirky, rabbit hole of a film. Imagine one of those detectives is Dustin Hoffman with a bad haircut. But rather than work through it yourself, you hire existential detectives to help you track down the source of your suffering. Imagine you were experiencing an existential crisis. Read more: The Meaning Of The Truman Show How the majority of us are psychologically controlled, through fear and comfort to, as Cristof says, “accept the reality of the world that we’re given.”
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It’s too easy to call the film a satirical extension of “reality television.” Instead, Peter Weir deftly uses the motif of reality TV to present the “un-realities” of our own world. Everything is artificial - from the buildings, to the people, to the very sun above his head. His entire life is constructed inside a gigantic set, encompassing the picturesque town of SeaHaven. Jim Carrey plays Truman Burbank, the first child ever legally adopted by a corporation. Most of all, these films challenge you to wake up. They use satire and metaphor to approach the truths that would otherwise be too difficult to understand, or too terrifying to comprehend. The following 10 films are chosen because they shed light on the forces at work within our lives, this very moment. Only films convey their meaning in a more sensory way – using both audio and visual elements to enter the mind of the viewer. But with two healthy calves born in 2020 and a new baby female calf born in 2022, local whale researchers and the Lummi Nation are holding out hope that it isn’t too late to ensure a future for Kiki and her family.The same could be said for memorable films. With 81 Salish Sea orcas missing or dead since 1998, J-pod is now down to 25 whales. With bustling port cities like Vancouver and Seattle surrounding Puget Sound, engine noise from ships echoes all the way down to the sea floor, drowning out their vocalizations and driving them to change their natural foraging and feeding habits.Īs international shipping continues its rapid rise, the orcas are in decline. J-pod vocalizes-without scaring away the salmon, of course.įor Kiki and her family, sound is pollution. But Kiki’s family speaks its own orca dialect. They even have their own language of clicks and calls, and use echolocation to “see” sound.
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