Here are some of my philosophical reflections on movies.
Rather than completed essays, these are mostly my lecture notes in various stages of polish.
A reading of Christopher Nolan's 1999 film as a parable of the death of modernity (conceived of as the quest for objectivity and certainty) and the birth of postmodernity (conceived of as the acceptance of human finitude and the awareness that all facts are mediated by the perspective one brings to them): |
A reading of the Wachowski Brothers' 1999 sci-fi movie as an exercise in Marxist critique rather than metaphysical and epistemological thought experiments in the analytic philosophical style: |
A discussion of Robert Bresson's 1956 masterpiece, focusing on the theme of constructing a meaning for one's life narrative in the face of unjust suffering: |
For more of my inchoate reflections on film, see my blog Video Ut Intellectum.
Here are links to my most interesting posts:
- Atonement (Wright, 2007)
- Children of Men (CuarĂ³n, 2006)
- Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-long Blog (Whedon, 2008)
- Fiddler on the Roof (Jewison, 1971)
- Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
- I Am Legend (Lawrence, 2007)
- The Mist (Darabont, 2007)
- Requiem (Schmid, 2006)
- The Searchers (Ford, 1956)
- WALL-E (Stanton, 2008)