sci-fi
In 'The Age of Miracles,' a young girl chooses her path as the planet falls off its own
Walker reveals the consequences of the slowing in a methodical manner, and part of the slow-burning terror of the story stems from the realistic human reactions: panic, denial, paranoia, acceptance, and even boredom. As a perceptive child, and with the added perspective of adulthood, Julia is able to ruminate on these effects. When she finds out a disturbing secret about her normally predictable father, she wonders if he would have made different decisions if life had remained normal. But then she imagines the counterpoint in the voice of her mother, who she knows would say: “You can’t blame everything on the slowing. People are responsible for their own actions.” More
'Prometheus,' parricide, and Ridley Scott's returning of the 'Alien' franchise to the big questions
As a prequel (of sorts) to Alien, the film seems just as invested in parricide as the other films, but it's also a mirror of our own very Earth-bound obsession with the origins of life. In that sense, the Scott-directed Prometheus serves as an appropriate origin-story to a franchise that includes everything from Scott’s original sci-fi/horror masterpiece to action figures and key chains. It is almost as though the offspring spawned by Scott’s brainchild, after having passed through the hands of three other directors (James Cameron, David Fincher, and Jean-Pierre Jeunet), have overrun their creator’s intentions. With Prometheus, Scott has both reasserted control and brought the series back to something like its former glory. More
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