Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Apocalyptic And Post-Apocalyptic Fiction, Rodney King, Software Bug
15 Apr 2016
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Connections between it and kiss me deadly". Like old school noirs, it features a main character whos haunted by some old trauma. Double-crossing characters who are selfish and neurotic. No one is who they seem to be, ulterior motives. City is cluttered, lots of shadows, filled with people, glitters with neon lights. Very subjective storytelling: lots of pov shots. Lenny isn"t a private investigator, but he acts like one: loner, wasn"t well integrated to the society, doesn"t belong to a group, an outsider. Like noir"s they tend to be particularly good at questioning the. Dystopian, almost apocalyptic science fiction set in a police state. From our perspective, it"s in the past but when it was created it was the near future. Talks about the mass apocalypse of the change into the new millennial. Y2k when people expected a mass computer bug to shut down all the computers in the world and chaos would happen.
