Here's a video link to the Slovenian critical theorist Slavoj Zizek on Alfonso Cuaron's film adaptation of P.D. James's dystopian vision The Children of Men. To listen, click here.
And here's Zizek on disaster films, from an interview on Haaretz.com:
"Apparently it's so hard for us to imagine a new global utopian project based on work and cooperation, that the only way we can entertain the thought is to pay a mental price of extreme catastrophe. What fascinates me about disaster films is how circumstances of vast catastrophe suddenly bring about social cooperation. Even racial tensions vanish. It's important at the end of Independence Day that everyone pulls together -- Jews, Arabs, Blacks. Disaster films might be the only optimistic social genre that remains today, and that's a sad reflection of our desperate state. The only way to imagine a utopia of social cooperation is to conjure a situation of absolute catastrophe. Disaster films might be all that's left of the utopian genre."
See you October 21.
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