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Primer (2004)
What makes the best science fiction?
As a genre science fiction often creates experiences that are viscerally remote from our reality. We are removed to an imagined future, a distant space, or dystopian alternate existence. We are asked as an audience to accept certain premises as the veil is constructed before us. We identify and understand the way in which this is not our reality and place ourselves for a time in another. Rarely are we simply presented a story that could be taking place today, down the street, that qualifies as science fiction. Primer is an exception.
Yet the film is unquestionably science fiction - its central events explore the consequences of time travel. What makes it singular is the way that this exploration is embedded into a reality that is entirely ours. Rather than being asked to establish premises about an imagined reality, our own is presented to us with its mysteries and our ignorance laid bare...
Unmistaken Child (2008)
Can Society Demand Our Children Of Us?
To what degree do we have a duty to society at large? This is one of many questions that are likely to stir in your mind when reflecting on this film. What more could you ask of a documentary except that it expand your knowledge of the world and make you think more about what you already knew and what it means, all while showing you inspiring footage of some of the most dramatic landscapes our planet has to offer?
Simply told, cleanly edited, with little cinematic analysis and no pedantic voice-over Unmistaken Child presents a fascinating view into Tibetan Buddhism very worth seeing.
And unless you have a trip to Nepal or Tibet scheduled for the near future, see it on the largest screen possible. The dramatic landscape plays a very strong supporting role to the true dramatis personae - the culture nurtured in its valleys beneath the roof of the world - and the social reality that unfolds in this unique region.