I watched Primer some time ago; couldn't make heads or tails of it. Seemed even more incomprehensible than Memento, not that that film was terribly hard to follow ...
With the Iceland ashes over Europe (it's glass, apparently) rekindling fantasies of impending doom & judgment day, I have been struck by all the dystopian, end-of-the-world films of late, not the least of which is KNOWING. It is said that in dreams you cannot die; but on the big screen, fantasies of the end of the world seem to proliferate. Any thoughts on this? Is it just unimaginative neoliberals at work who cannot conceive of the crisis of capitalism (if it is that) in other terms than the end of the world?
Which again reminds one of Stanislaw Lem's discussion of Philip K. Dick in his book on futurology: We may well imagine the end of the world, but somehow, some way, the free-market economy will survive ...
Henry
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> A student of mine, a physicist, has asked me if I know of any feature films
> that deal with issues in physics in a serious way. He doesn't want gimmicky
> sci-fi although he wouldn't rule out sci-fi altogether. All I could come up
> with on the spur of the moment was "Mindwalk," which he watched and
> dismissed with some scorn. Any other ideas? Please reply off-list.
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> Peter Caws
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