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“I just keep wishing I could think of a way to show them, that they don’t own me.”
This spring two strikingly-similarly themed movies were released within three-weeks of each other. Joss Whedon’s Cabin in the Woods and Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games both tell the story of teenagers who are trapped in an artificially controlled environment to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cabin in the Woods, Cthulhu, heroes, horror, Joss Whedon, nihilism, pacifism, The Hunger Games
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“Simply don’t press the button. If enough of you don’t, the test will conclude.”
The Box (Kelly, 2009) appears to be about greed and materialism — selfishness vs. social responsibility. You can get a million dollars but someone you don’t know must die. All you have to do is press a button. One thinks … Continue reading
“We have to just … keep carrying the fire.”
Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a dark story, but it is not nihilistic. The movie version of The Road (Hillcoat, 2009), at least, is ultimately a story about hope. In fact, The Road is a story about hope precisely because … Continue reading
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Tagged evil, fear, hope, meaning of life, nihilism, providence, The Road
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“Eeny, meeny, miny, moe…”
Here’s a parable of nihilism. There is a group of blind men trying to describe something they’ve been told is an “elephant”. One says it is like a snake, another says it is like a spear, another a wall, a … Continue reading
