My rating: ** Imdb link The characters and story in this science fiction film directed by Michael Winterbottom are of no real interest and the film doesn’t offer much that is inspiring either on what appears to be its main themes of memory and identity and otherness. But what is interesting about this film are [...]
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Code 46 (2003)
Posted in film, Foucault, science fiction/fantasy, tagged biopower, Code 46, disciplinary society, Panopticon, territory on November 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Cube (1997)
Posted in film, Foucault, science fiction/fantasy, tagged Cube, disciplinary society, Macbeth, Panopticon, surveillance on November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Spoiler alert My rating: *** Imdb link This film about a group of strangers, inexplicably trapped in an interlocking network of connected cubes and their efforts to escape, is gripping from beginning to finish. It also raises some interesting questions. What if we were trapped in a disciplinary mechanism which has gone way beyond any [...]
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