The Crucible contains many examples of paradox. The characters described in the book believed in the church and its teachings. People were taught to tell the truth and lies were not tolerated. The children however told lies and implicated innocent women by stating they were witches. The accusers...
Other examples of predestination paradox movies involving physical time travel include the Terminator franchise (1984-2015), Back to the Future (1985), Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (1989), Kate and Leopold (2001), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004),Timecrimes(2007),Looper(2...
Many non-standard examples are also here: the Legend of Faust, shootouts in the movies, the Madness of Odysseus, to name a few. The author uses familiar formulas, fables, and paradoxes to guide readers through what he calls the "hall of mirrors of strategic decision-making". His light-...
These are just a few of the more infamous examples of the bootstrap paradox in fiction, and some of these tales have even helped inform scientific theory on the subject. “As part of our efforts to construct a self-consistent quantum theory of time travel via closed timelike curves, I did...
Examples are changes in binocular optical dominance when one or other eye is covered, through to the phenomenon of the phantom limb, where regions assigned to a removed limb become invaded by other functional areas, resulting in sensory confusion, and the illusion that the limb is still present...
The theme of search for bodily identity through communication appears predominantly in non-Western movies. There are a couple of reasons for that. The present paper proposes an answer by analyzing two outstanding examples of Oriental cinema shot through the lens of a westerner in different senses,...
Examples are changes in binocular optical dominance when one or other eye is covered, through to the phenomenon of the phantom limb, where regions assigned to a removed limb become invaded by other functional areas, resulting in sensory confusion, and the illusion that the limb is still present...
There are currently no announced plans to release any of the Garden of Sinners (Kara no Kyokai) series of movies in North America, but having seen a bit, I think that it warrants a spot on the general pop-culture radar. Not having seen any of the franchise's prior entries, thanks to...
Can you give any examples? Reply Crom June 1, 2017 at 6:23 pm Well pretty much any scene i translated had some notable changes or additions to the overall tone of the scene. Some smaller things happen regulary, like using the word pathetic multiple times even though it isn’t actua...
If I were to follow the path of my own life, there is no end of examples when I have decided to do something only to discover my own lunacy later and after the fact. Whether it was pride, loneliness or random mental rumble tums through a vivid mental landscape that only my mind can...