Over at The New Yorker’s Page-Turner blog, I take the Thoreau passages in Shane Carruth’s sci-fi movie Upstream Color very, very seriously.
Category: science fiction
Starring Justin Timberlake as the Labor Theory of Value
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I consider the Marxian principles in the new Andrew Niccol movie In Time.
Another thing that occurred to me while watching “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”
Being intelligent inside an ape is like being human inside a car. You’re saddled with a prognathous mask for a face. You’re incapable of words and must resort to loud, alarming noises. Your every motion is absurdly powerful—a dangerous state of affairs because you’re subject to sudden accesses of rage.
Not-too-realness
Over at the Paris Review Daily, I ruminate on Steven Soderbergh’s new movie Contagion.
Ugly duckling
I have a blog post about Splice, the new science fiction movie about baby-sitting, over at The Paris Review.