Falling Down (1993) and The Commuter (2018): Two movies separated by twenty-five years, roughly one generation, present noticeably different attitudes to roughly the same concepts and societal conditions. How those “societal conditions” are portrayed are startingly different as well. The two main characters represent a similar type: White male working man with a family. TheContinue reading “Commuted Sentences: Two Movies Separated by 25 Years, Worlds Apart”
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Lie Back and Think of England
In the dream I was to ascend to my title, the 112th earl of something or other. There was some confusion. Was I the 111th? There was a little box that had the numbers on it, written out in numerals. The ceremony started and I knew I had to get out for a moment andContinue reading “Lie Back and Think of England”
Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time Part IV Point 6
If the South Had Won the Civil War is a book by MacKinlay Kantor, a work of “speculative fiction” rather than science fiction. The premise hinges on a cat startling Ulysses S. Grant’s horse prior to his ascendancy to top general. If you want to get into the historical weeds, prior to Vicksburg. The horseContinue reading “Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time Part IV Point 6”
Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time, Part V
Events in real life can have many points of view. Physically something viewed from a different angle and distance looks different. If a viewer could move from one viewpoint to others and view an event from different places at the same time, how much would it change the viewer’s understanding and interpretation of what wasContinue reading “Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time, Part V”
I Dwell In Possibility 