Okay, so I’m thinking of how these four movies relate to our current technological society:
Speed
The Net
The Matrix
The Lake House
Think about it. The chapter on Speed could be all about Paul Virilio’s theories on the integral accident and dromology.
The Net is about the problem of Google’s monolithic control over all information and the threat of being disappeared.
The Matrix — well that one’s been done to death in philosophy and could be easily plagiarized from Slavoj Zizek.
The Lake House — it’s got Keanu and Sandra Bullock again, so I had to include it, but I’m sure something could be said about time, communication, and information being less constrained by time in the same way that Speed has our bodies being less constrained by space because of transportation but then resulting the potential for accidents and hijacking.
And I bet if I started writing a book on it, I’d find all of these other weird connections with Keanu and Sandra Bullock and I’d eventually go insane and drill a hole in my head. Needless to say, it would be the most ridiculous shit ever.
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