(37:54) The combination of the sci-fi and detective genres takes some skill to pull off but this Australian crew succeeds. Sci-fi Saturday: “The Big Nothing” melds sci-fi and whodunit in a taut drama. The “New Mars” colony embodies a contradiction: The alleged better world created by “science and logic” can’t accommodate the nature of humans. (19:14 min) In this award-winner, the underground humans must, according to the terraforming colony’s rules, deny emotion, which pretty much guarantees a story. Sci-fi Saturday: When terraforming Mars means “Mars”-forming people. Sci-fi Saturday: When “The Workplace” is anything but (9:32 min) The short film starts with a woman reassuring herself, unsettlingly, “I AM the boss.” This sci-fi short will appeal to many who have had a job at the corner of Rat and Race and sense that’s a blessing compared to the alternative.
A brief sci-fi diversion like “Floaters” (4 min) reminds us that cluelessness is not a problem we can just solve or should even try to. Sci-fi Saturday: What if the future does not include smarter people? Comic scenes would dot the aerial landscape, dispelling the usual earnestness of sci-fi films.
Other reviews from the “We are but DUST” short sci-fi film files. In such a world, guilt and innocence, and freedom, are irrelevant behavior control is the only legitimate goal.Ī good viewing choice in the under one half hour category.
#Limbo 2020 free#
The tale’s dark conclusion hints at something that Michael Egnor warns of here at Mind Matters News: If the world ceases to believe in free will, the problem is not that there is no guilt but that there is no innocence. One hitch is that the futurist punishment portrayed in “Limbo” assumes that the person who is punished by having to experience what the victim experienced would regard the experience in the same way as the victim (or the victim’s loved ones) did. The chilling premise of “Limbo” would make for an interesting discussion. The sci-fi element unfolds gradually, at a pace that enables the story to remain real. The ambience is very good, particularly the integration of a sci-fi premise with a real-world post-tragedy setting. If we are to examine how the basic premise plays out in the characters’ lives, it may be better to hear it up front. Otherwise, too much of our cognitive effort goes into trying to guess the basic scenario from the dialogue and setting. Precisely because the scriptwriter does not have 2.5 hours in which to work in all that context, it may be wise to just tell us some information up front. One problem with many sci-fi shorts is that they don’t provide the viewer with enough background to really understand the story. Review: The extended synopsis, quoted above, was a wise decision. This is the story of one such person, and those that come to his rescue.
You killed someone’s wife? Your sentence is a life where your spouse has been taken from you, leaving you to toil in grief and mental anguish.īut for ‘inmates’ who are wrongfully convicted, and are forced to live in their punishing alternate reality with no awareness of their true circumstances, what becomes of them? Will they ever escape?
Instead, the convicted are placed into a coma and forced to live out their sentence within a dream, with reality inverted, as the victim of their own crime. There are no institutions with high walls and barred cells.
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