Category Archives: Blog #4. Refining Thesis Statements

The film Equilibrium is a science-fiction, action-thriller directed and written by Kurt Wimmer, that explores a futuristic world where human feeling is illegal, and emotion suppressants are mandatory. The film worked with a 20 million dollar budget to create a … Continue reading →

Jake Sully attempts to fulfill his brothers’ mission on the planet Pandora. He intends to get information from the Na’vi people about a substance found on Pandora that is in high demand back on Earth. However, while exploring Pandora, from … Continue reading →

Humans are now more reliant than ever before on science and technology in the modern digital age. People use technology for basic comforts and entertainment, but technology is also utilized in other ways that have revolutionized the state of global … Continue reading →

Limitless by Neil Burger, takes place in the present day world. It is the story of struggling, small-time author Eddie Morra (Cooper) as he discovers a underground drug that can turn him from an uninspired, unimaginative loser into a proverbial … Continue reading →

Minority Report (Steven Spielberg, 2002) tells the story of John Anderton (Tom Cruise) who works as an officer of the Precrime Department in Washington, D.C. in 2054. This Precrime unit uses the psychic knowledge of three humans known as the … Continue reading →

The Island, directed by Michael Bay, takes place in the year 2019 and follows two main characters Lincoln Six Echo and Jordan Two Delta. Together they live in a community that lives on an isolated compound because the rest of … Continue reading →

The movie Gamer is essentially a film describing gaming characteristics used in the future, and is also the film I will be analyzing. The main plot of the movie concerns a fictional scenario set in the future. A game developer … Continue reading →

Alex Proyas’ film I, Robot is set in the year 2034, a year when the use of robots as servants has become the norm. A Chicago detective Del Spooner appears to be the only person in the world who doesn’t … Continue reading →

Avatar (James Cameron, 2009), a movie written and directed by James Cameron, is set in a faraway moon called Pandora which is radically different from Earth and hosts exotic ecosystems and native people. Two groups of people from Earth have … Continue reading →