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Redefining the Ideas of Language, Time, and Free Will Time and language are both basic constructs for society. Individuals depend on the existence of time to organize their lives and language to have the ability to communicate with those around them. Though the technicalities of time and language have changed over the years, they have, for the most part, remained the same conceptually. However, The Arrival, a science fiction movie released in 2016, took the philosophy behind time and language and altered it completely. The Arrival tells the story of Dr. Louise Banks, a professor of language, as she attempts to decipher the language of the aliens. In doing so, her perceptions of time are completely changed, an experience which causes emotional …show more content…
If all moments are happening at one point and in one singular present, there is no way that any causal chains can be created. In the movie, Louise is able to call the Chinese leader and change his mind about attacking the alien ships by relaying to him information she is told in the traditional idea of the future. This demonstrates not a causal chain that functions linearly, but instead a loop or a circle. Rather than each action be dependent on another, each action is dependent on each other, a concept that defines the idea of nonlinear time. Consequently, because no causal chains exist, neither could determinism. As a result of this, every choice an individual makes is independent of causal chains that could influence it in any way. For example, Louise, having already experienced significant portions of her life, has the ability to choose whether or not to give birth to her daughter. However, because this decision has no causal impact on the traditional idea of the future due to the nature of nonlinear time, it instead represents a completely liberated version of free will. This is a version in which choices have absolutely no influence over anything else; instead, all of the choices made in the traditional concepts of the past and future function together to give a singular output of a present moment, otherwise known as nonlinear time. However, this philosophy does pose many ethical and legal problems. If a choice does not directly define or influence its outcome, there is no standard by which an individual can be punished for making a wrong or criminal decision. This problem of free will could cause challenges in determining how harsh a punishment should be for a crime, if there should be a punishment at all, and could significantly problematize different forms of government and of legal
Anyone can teach others from leading by example. Showing others what you can accomplish establishes confidence in others to try out their own dreams, wishes, and goals. A great example of leading by example is Gus, Clark, and Richie in the movie The Benchwarmers. These men meet Nelson, a stereotypical nerd that is bullied by baseball jocks every day just because he wants to play with them. This little boy inspires the men to show others that everyone should have the same opportunity to play baseball, no matter the skill level.
This paper entitled, Imitation of Life is based on the movie Imitation of Life. This movie is set in the 1940s. In the movie, an African American woman by the name of Annie becomes the care taker of a Caucasian woman's (Lora) daughter, Susie. In the movie, the caretaker Annie has a daughter named Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane is the product of a rape, performed by a Caucasian man, which results in her being fair skinned and able to pass as a Caucasian woman, which she does for a long time. Due to the fact this movie focuses on the themes of identity and class, I will use the following psychological views and tests to discuss how psychology can be demonstrated every day. The Kenneth
How would mankind communicate to each other without names? Names are what describe people in terms of personality, traits, and association. That’s why names are immensely important and thus, used in films such as Bound, in order to create a deeper meaning in a character’s actions and personality. The film Bound is written and directed by The Wachowskis. The film is about two lesbians: ex-convict Corky, and lesbian prostitute Violet who is in a relationship with mob money-launderer Caesar but decides to escape from Caesar after meeting Corky for she fell in love with her the moment she sow her in the elevator. So Violet wants to leave Caesar for Corky, but that’s not all. She and Corky come up with a strategy to steal two million dollars from the mob and blame it on Caesar. "Your name defines you," says Gregg Steiner, a Los Angeles talent manager (Parenting). In the film Bound, characters’ names have a lot of significance in which some have more connotations than others. Each character’s name holds symbolic meaning to the character’s role in the film and this is very apparent among Corky, Violet, and Caesar as well as the supporting casts: Gino and Johnny Marzzone.
Arrival directed by Denis Villeneuve has a realistic view on the relation between human and alien, the division of the human race, and the acceptance of the inevitable. The film centers around linguists teacher Louise Banks, who is called upon to work for the U.S. army after 12 alien ships lands on earth. Since she is one of the country 's best linguists, she gets to help communicate with the aliens. Through a language that uses time travel to partly communicate, Louise communicates with the aliens and brings unity throughout the entire world. The film ends with Louise being able to see her future and even though she knows it won 't end well, chooses to not change it.
One way which we speak, experience and conceive of time is that time is something that flows or passes from the future to the present and from the present to the past. When viewed in this way, events which are present have a special existential status. Whatever may be the case with regard to the reality or unreality of events in the future and the past, events that are in the present exist with a capital 'E'. It can then be postulated that it is the 'present' or 'now' that shifts to even later times. If events in time (or moments of time) are conceived in terms of past, present and future, or by means of the tenses, then they form what McTaggart called the A-series (from which the A-theory of time is derived). This type of change is commonly referred to as 'temporal becoming', and gives rise to well known perplexities concerning both what does the shifting and the type of shift involved, which we will discuss later.
In the documentary “Fed Up,” sugar is responsible for Americas rising obesity rate, which is happening even with the great stress that is set on exercise and portion control for those who are overweight. Fed Up is a film directed by Stephanie Soechtig, with Executive Producers Katie Couric and Laurie David. The filmmaker’s intent is mainly to inform people of the dangers of too much sugar, but it also talks about the fat’s in our diets and the food corporation shadiness. The filmmaker wants to educate the country on the effects of a poor diet and to open eyes to the obesity catastrophe in the United States. The main debate used is that sugar is the direct matter of obesity. Overall, I don’t believe the filmmaker’s debate was successful.
Imagine starting your day and not having a clue of what to do, but you begin to list the different options and routes you can take to eventually get from point A to point B. In choosing from that list, there coins the term “free will”. Free will is our ability to make decisions not caused by external factors or any other impediments that can stop us to do so. Being part of the human species, we would like to believe that we have “freedom from causation” because it is part of our human nature to believe that we are independent entities and our thoughts are produced from inside of us, on our own. At the other end of the spectrum, there is determinism. Determinism explains that all of our actions are already determined by certain external causes
, The debate between free will and fatalism has existed since the conceptualization of time. On one hand, in everyday life, time flows in a uniform fashion. People experience time in which there is a past, present, and a future. Yet, physicists and philosophers see time as something completely different. In fact, they see time as an illusion. Called the tenseless theory of time, time does not flow but this theory views time as a fourth dimension where all past, present, and future events are equal (Callender & Edney, 2004). Essentially, this theory proposes that there is no passage of time and no becoming of future events. As a result, one can view this theory as a “block” universe in which every event that has happened, is happening as of right now, and is going to happen has been set in stone.
The plot is clearly a linear chronology. The film starts a story of a boy, who wants to make a change in his life. And then, it continues talking about him becoming a wicked cop. On the other hand, a good cop named Billy is trying to go undercover and help solve a crime. Throughout the movie, the audiences can get ideas of who the good guys are and who the bad guys are.
The film Imitation of life (John M. Stahl, 1934) Imitation meant to mimic the values, and tradition of a person around him/her. In this film Imitation of life it illustrates the struggles of a young woman name Peola who is trying to pretend to be someone different. Peola’s character is very deceitful because of her fair light skin, and the way she wear her dresses you would think she is white.
a context; historically, technically, and psychologically. Gleick dissects time, showing us how the ability to measure time in
Freedom, or the concept of free will seems to be an elusive theory, yet many of us believe in it implicitly. On the opposite end of the spectrum of philosophical theories regarding freedom is determinism, which poses a direct threat to human free will. If outside forces of which I have no control over influence everything I do throughout my life, I cannot say I am a free agent and the author of my own actions. Since I have neither the power to change the laws of nature, nor to change the past, I am unable to attribute freedom of choice to myself. However, understanding the meaning of free will is necessary in order to decide whether or not it exists (Orloff, 2002).
Time travel has long been a complex topic in terms of its existence or its effect upon humanity. The idea of time travel is seen as “a discrepancy between time and time,” where one can move themselves forward or backwards in the time continuum without the time traveler’s body experiencing the same duration of time. Even though time travel has not been proven yet in modern day, it is logically and physically possible for one to succeed in moving through time. Let one say that someone was successful in manifesting a time machine in order to alter previous mistakes made in one’s past. However, by stating that time travel is real, then it does interfere with the belief of free will. According to the argument made by Robert Heinlein in “All You
“Catch Me If You Can” is a film about the main character, Frank Abagnale Jr., who manages to successfully present himself as a teacher, pilot, doctor, and prosecutor in order to perform cons worth millions of dollars all before the age of nineteen. Frank is doing so by primarily cashing fraud cheques which help make him one of the youngest con artists to ever exist in the U.S. Though Frank uses many forms of deceptions in the film, Frank mainly lies using facades, delusions, and deflections to achieve his status which ultimately hinders him throughout his life. First and foremost, Frank uses facades throughout his whole criminal career in order to cover up for who he actually is. As Frank impersonates to be a sub teacher for his class, an airline pilot, a doctor named Dr. Frank Connors, or a lawyer, he disables himself from having any kind of relationship with the
In the film The Verdict, the opposing attorneys could not be any more different in their approaches to the case. The medical malpractice suit involves a young woman left comatose after childbirth. She was given anesthetics for the operation, after which she began to choke on her own vomit and became deprived of oxygen. Although the legal issue in the central focus of the case, the story is more about each attorney’s journey to the final verdict, rather the case itself. Frank Galvin, a hard boozing, has-been attorney represents the plaintiff in the case. In stark contrast, the high-profile, sophisticated attorney, Ed Concannon, defends the doctors of the Catholic hospital. Each lawyer differentiates himself with distinct tactics, philosophy,