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James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence (2013) centers on a group of eight friends who, during the passing of a comet over Earth, become trapped in intertwining realities where they encounter alternate versions of themselves. The comet creates an anomaly in which each character moves back and forth between multiple realities featuring the same setting. The film… Read more
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Michael Anderson’s Logan’s Run (1976) presents a seemingly utopian society where pleasure functions as the central principle of life. What initially appears to be a perfect world, however, comes with a disturbing catch: once citizens turn thirty, they must undergo a ceremony called Carousel, a ritual they believe will renew their bodies. Those who escape… Read more
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Alex Proyas’ I, Robot takes its inspiration from Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics”, delving into the question of what would happen if an advanced artificial intelligence were to alter the order of these laws. The famous laws are as follows: the first law ensures that a robot shall not harm a human being; the… Read more
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Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) is a political science-fiction film that explores how the world might respond to first contact with extraterrestrial life. After twelve egg-shaped alien vessels appear across the globe, social order quickly begins to fracture. Riots, looting, cult activity, and widespread panic reveal how easily uncertainty can further destabilize a world in disarray.… Read more
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Alex Garland’s debut science fiction film Ex Machina (2015) attempts to foresee the consequences of an artificially intelligent gynoid that can pass the Turing test, pointing beyond the mere simulation of human traits toward the possibility of machine consciousness. Ava, the gynoid, is designed with a “fluid” mind capable of processing millions of permutations of… Read more
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Directed by Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men (2006) presents a dystopian world in which nations suffer from violent conflict, infertility, religious extremism, terrorist attacks, anti-immigrant policies, and state repression. The film depicts a divided world plunged into chaos, with Britain standing as one of the last functioning states through strict governmental control and heavily enforced… Read more
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Karyn Kusama’s Æon Flux (2005) takes place in a dystopian commune called Bregna, where a technocratic regime of scientists aims to preserve the last portion of humanity, nearly destroyed by a pandemic. Headed by the lead scientist Trevor Goodchild, the Goodchild family has long been in power in Bregna, which is sustained through cloning practices… Read more
