A Genre of movies that evokes serious passion or hatred: Science fiction drama of Cinema.
Science fiction is a genre of fiction, which contains description of possible and imaginary futures or worlds; mostly it evolves around future settings. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Truman Show are my love songs and I probably watched them more than 30 times.
Some might have had an occasion to think to himself or herself—“my life could be managed by someone else”. The Truman Show is a satirical comedy drama film directed by Peter Weir and written by Andrew Niccol. This film was originally drafted in the tone of a Science Fiction thriller. However, Jim Carrey’s acting added comical sources on the film; personally, he expressed emotional aspects of Truman Burbank well. So, I did not feel much confused or frustrated from grasping the setting. Truman Burbannk lived his entire life, failing to recognize that his whole life had been managed by one mastermind—Producer Christof. The producer put Truman Burbank on a small world, in which he could control Truman’s life, and also film his life through cameras, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Therefore, Truman’s real emotion or reaction through the certain situation captured and this was the gist of story that the Truman Show delivers to the audience.
Eternal Shine of the Spotless Mind is also a Science-fiction film, about a couple that tries to erase their memories of each other. Many couples tend to feel painful after their relationship changed from passion into bitterness. Clementine erases Joel from her memory; then Joel tries to erase her also, but his ego finds out that he does not want to erase memories of Clementine.
I have recommended those two Science fiction films when my friends asked me for a suggestion. Some of them really liked, while others hated watching them, perhaps because of complex and far-from-real plots of the stories. Perhaps, these complexities that require understanding, led to confusion to my friends who are used to conventional movie settings and story lines.
I would definitely say that Science fiction films are my love songs; because they force the audience to become more aware of the possibilities of not so straightforward, visual reality. At the same time, they urge people to be self-aware, about their true identities and even about philosophical question of the purpose of our existence.
Eternal Sunshine link – – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338013/
The Truman Show – –http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120382/
2 responses so far ↓
Brooklyn Brit // Sep 19th 2012 at 10:07 am
Really informative post. I too loved The Truman show, and it defintely ranks up there in my top 20 film faves. I would have never thought to put it in the ‘science fiction’ category though, so that has really given me something to think about as this is the first time I have ever given the definition of ‘science fiction’ a second thought. You made me think, I like that.
Malynda // Sep 19th 2012 at 1:38 pm
Great post and movie picks. As a nonfiction junkie, I must say I do love getting my hands on a great sci-fi novel or movie once in a while.
“The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” was awesome, and I agree complex.
Lately, I have been trying to break my nonfiction habit and read more novels. I love reading sci-fi novels since its creative in the respect that you have to imagine and picture the impossible scene the author is describing.
I would recommend Margaret Atwood “The Year of the Flood” and “Oryx and Crake” as two of my favorite books ever. These two sci-fi novels take place at the same time and place, but feature different characters in the story. Its sort of an end of the world, global meltdown, and human survival type of horror story.
If you are into that sort of thing like I am, check it out.
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