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Art and Utopia

… or The Work of Art in the Age of Genetic Replication In both Michael Bay’s The Island and Curarón’s Children of Men, a painting by Pablo Picasso is shown. In The Island we see Femme Assise (Jacqueline) in the office of Dr. Merrick while in Children of Men we see Picasso’s heartfelt depiction of [...]

Reappraising Utopia

The growing list of movies dealing with utopian/dystopian issues can not be simply dismissed as a Hollywood capitalization of our consumer need for or addiction to widescreen rehearsals of a humanity in crisis, facing apocalypse or enduring to the point of near extinction: catastrophe. Or rather the need is there but for not obvious reasons. [...]