Thematic Connections (Allegory of The Cave, Oedipus the King, The Man On the Moon, Free Will and Determinism in Minority Report [texts] The Matrix, Gattaca and Minority Report [movies])
- Ideologies/Illusions (Lies)
- Reality (Ugly Truth)
- Ignorance
- Determination
- Discrimination
- Free Will
- Security
- Determinism
The theme I found most interesting while brain storming that repeatedly popped in all of the texts and movies we’ve reviewed was reality …the knowing of the ugly truth. The knowing of the ugly truth has become a self-inflicted wound within each text or movie we’ve done throughout the semester. In Oedipus the King, Oedipus went on the journey to find out whom his parents were better yet who he was, after finding out the ugly truth and seeing his was blind by ignorance and illusions, Oedipus couldn’t bear to be comfortable of who he actually was.. In reference to the theme of “the knowing of the ugly truth” In the movie the Matrix, the main character Neo has been put in the position of eagerness to find out if the Matrix is the better reality. Once he goes through a series of events, he realizes that he rather live in the Matrix than the Dystopia of the “real world” Connection to the Matrix is the text Allegory of the Cave in which slaves were trapped inside of a cave, only knowing of what was reflected on the walls of the cave. To prove that there is more than what the eye sees, one of the slaves were released from the cave and enlightened by the reality of the world outside the cave. There’s more to life than the cave. In the movie Gattaca and the text the Man on the Moon, Vincent the main character in Gattaca was the man kind baby in which he wasn’t genetic engineered without imperfections. With these imperfections was the knowing truth of less possibilities and opportunities for him to make it out in the real world. His parents always pushed forth in which Vincent was less than perfect, Vincent was weak and couldn’t accomplish. At a point in Vincent’s life, he believed just that. In the movie Minority Report and the text Free Will and Determinism in Minority Report, Minority Report is based upon a world in 2054 – Washington, DC in which the world is protected by a pre-crime system. With this system, the chief of police – John Anderton has come across the situation in which he has committed a crime of murderer in the future. John Anderton knowing he has this future ahead of him, tries to do everything he can to escape his future yet is only getting near. John Anderton also knows he has free will – meaning he has a choice to either go about proving the truth or going against it.The knowing of the ugly truth has evolved in to which each main character has been put in a particular situation where they have to deal with the truth and what they do with the knowledge of the truth they've gained.
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