tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post7441013322407475148..comments2024-03-18T19:05:39.072-07:00Comments on Morphosis: Thoughts: Time Travel and CinemaAdam Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15803399373213872690noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-1654865246328528242023-08-07T21:49:20.072-07:002023-08-07T21:49:20.072-07:00Grreat post thanksGrreat post thanksLiteratura Sociocriticahttps://literaturasociocritica.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-9015263991670648442020-02-27T02:55:11.432-08:002020-02-27T02:55:11.432-08:00Fascinating post. I am not sure though whether the...Fascinating post. I am not sure though whether the distinction between <em>The Time Machine</em> and <em>La Jetée</em> is really about positive and negative (the very far future in Well's novel is quite grim). For me, the essential difference ist that in the former, time travelling has no consequences for the timeline, there is no awareness of the time travel paradox (which is, of course, also due to the fact, that the time traveller only travels into the future).<br /><br />What intrigues me about many time travel stories which explore the paradoxes is their often oedipal and ultimately solipsistic structure. David Wittenberg has argued in his excellent study on time travel narratives, that time travellers tend to go back the moment of their inception (literally or metaphorical) and observe (and alter) how they and they world they come from were made. By travelling back, they change anything, so, in a way, they become the center of their universe. Of course, this is, once again, a self-reflexive move since the protagonist really is the center of the narrative universe.<br /><br />Oh, and "match cut", not jump cut.simifilmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10638715853134709545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5401830411147364284.post-63820095464602472822020-02-25T06:01:29.010-08:002020-02-25T06:01:29.010-08:00Fascinating post, Adam. I’m just here to lay down ...Fascinating post, Adam. I’m just here to lay down a marker for something I want to think about in this context: Budrys’ <em>Rogue Moon</em>, which is a tragic and nightmarish counterpart to <em>Groundhog Day</em>. Or maybe its doppelgänger, since it’s a story about doppelgängers. In <em>Groundhog Day</em> the protagonist remains the same but time gets locked in a loop; in <em>Rogue Moon</em> time moves with its familiar linearity but the characters are continually erased and reconstituted, in a devilish anticipation of <em>The Age of Em</em>. All this is not quite your theme, but seems related to it in ways that I don't have the time to parse right now. But I will! Someday I will! Alan Jacobshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06777218862490842180noreply@blogger.com