Ran is a 1985 movie by Japanese director Akira Kurosawa; it is a free adaptation of Shakespeare’s The Tragedy of King Lear play. It reworks the mythological pre-Roman England setting of the play into Sengoku Era Japan (1467-1573 A.D.), the kingdom of England is replaced by the lands of the Ichimonji clan, Lear and his…
Category: Film
On androids and replicants: the question of humanity
“I think, therefore I am” has been at the heart of our understanding of ourselves (in the West) for a while now. It follows the premise that humans are rational creatures, in fact the only species capable of reason. This cold scientific ability that brought so much pride to 18th and 19th century positivists and…
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