Gattaca
...and (after his portrayal of the dark psyche in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence) into the future of humankind. It comes in the form of the atmospheric neo-noir/sci-fi/futuristic thriller which stars an intense Tom Cruise....
Myth, Shadow Politics, and Perennial Philosophy in Minority Report
(Writers: Jon Cohen and Frank Scott; Director: Steven Spielberg. 20th Century Fox and Dream Works Pictures, 2002)
A Film Analysis by Cathleen Rountree, Ph.D.c
While watching the drama,
the spectators become identified with
the mythical happening being portrayed, which allow[s] them to
participate briefly in the archetypal level of reality.
-- The Eternal Drama, Edward F. Edinger
The shadow personifies everything that
the subject refuses to acknowledge
about himself . . . --for instance, inferior
traits of character and other incompatible tendencies.
-- The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, C.G. Jung
The illegal we can do now; the
unconstitutional will take a little
longer.
-- Henry Kissinger, as quoted in The Trial of Henry Kissinger,
Christopher Hitchens
Minority Report is Steven Spielberg¹s second cinematic journey and investigation into interior darkness and (after his portrayal of the dark psyche in A.I.: Artificial Intelligence) into the future of humankind. It comes in the form of the atmospheric neo-noir/sci-fi/futuristic thriller which stars an intense Tom Cruise (who--at last--foregoes his boyish charm and artificial smile). This is the third Cruise film, in as many years, to deal with eyes and seeing and vision. First there was Stanley Kubrick¹s Eyes Wide Shut, in which Cruise could not see beyond his privileged upper-middle-class existence; then there was Cameron Crowe¹s Vanilla Sky in which Cruise¹s character, David Ames, could not distinguish between realities of the present, past and future, and the virtual. The metaphor...
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