Blog 8 (The Over All Journey )

Matrix
Dystopia, Truth of life, Soft Determinism.
Oedipus
Dystopia Ruined his own life, Soft Determinism.
Allegory of the Cave
Utopia, Soft Determinism.
Gattaca
Utopia, Soft Determinism
Man on the Moon
Discrimination, Soft Determinism.
Minority Report
Utopia, Soft Determinism.
Free Will and Determinism in the World of Minority Reports
Hard and soft Determinism.

Thematic Connections


Throughout the journey of this class we have went through various texts, movies, and so on ; which therefore have changed our mind of thinking and believing something as real. When it comes to the thematic connections between movies and texts I would say that “soft determinism” took place among all of these. Because everyone had their own choices to accept the truth or not, and to change their predetermined future by going for other options in life.
In the movie matrix we saw that Neo was provided with two choices among the red and the blue pills by Morpheus. Therefore Neo could have choice to live in the same rather than then creating his life a dystopia, where truth became harder to accept. So we can say that a soft determinism took place here. Additionally in the movie Gattaca Vincent accepted his truth of life that he isn’t going to live longer, he knew that he was weaker than this brother Anthon as a result he never got scared of death. All he knew that he will be changing his predetermined future and will show the world by fulfilling his dream of becoming an astronaut. He has proved that no matter how weak you are or how bad you predetermined future is, you still can see dreams and can fulfill them through hard work. Lastly Minority Report where John changed his predetermined future by Agatha where he was seen to be a criminal by killing Lew Crown. Although the situation took place in real where Lew was in front of John’s gun point but John control over his anger and therefore changed his predetermined future.

While in comes to the texts then the same situation took place with Oedipus, the prisoners in the cave and so on. Coming in the discussion on Oedipus then he had the choices either to let the truth to be unknown from him forever or to ruin his life by his own hands. Choice was his no one pressurized him and he took the decision to know the truth that he was the killer of his own biological father Creon. Further, in the Allegory of the cave although a utopia situation took place but still the prisoners had the choice either to stay in the cave forever or to escape the cave and to enter in the world of reality, i.e the actual world. Last but not the least “Man on The moon” discrimination was taking place but the people who were discriminated had the choice to raise their voice against this illegal act,some did and some didn’t .