film symbolism
Maximum Overdrive – The Best Film of All Time?
From coke machine gun sequences to minute-long post sequences, the possibility that Maximum Overdrive is the real origin of Skynet and the Transformers – and possibly one of the greatest, deepest films of all time. Given Stephen King’s drug problem at the time, it should have been called Maximum Overdose.
CULT CRIMES, MASS SHOOTINGS & MEDIA MIND CONTROL: Natural Born Killers (1994)
Shawn Helton
21st Century Wire
The 1994 cult film Natural Born Killers, is an examination of media manipulation, archetypal psychology and the violence embedded within American pop culture.
ESOTERIC HOLLYWOOD: The Truman Show is Our Reality
Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire
In this episode, I decipher the philosophical and sometime esoteric underpinnings to two popular 90s films, Groundhog Day and The Truman Show. Surprising perhaps to some, both films exhibit a great deal of philosophical depth and forethought. Curious ethical and metaphysical questions are raised in both, and with The Truman Show, in particular.