sci-fi
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Serenity (2005) is a film follow-up to Joss Whedon’s Firefly franchise that mixes the space western genre with science fiction, featuring western tropes such as the cowboy with its gear, posse, guns, saloons, and shootouts while offering a timely commentary on the culture of fear, fear of the outsider as well as authoritarianisms of the… 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
