Re:Inspiration!: cross genre themes
Logan wrote: [quote]I’m interested in many works that deal with systemic inequality/ cruelty, prejudice, and struggles to be individual.[/quote]
Struggles to be individual I think can be associated with alienation/marginalization since to be an individual is to recognize what makes one different form the surrounding community which then in intensifying degrees can lead to marginalization and then alienation.
I find myself drawn to the beginning of this process, individuation and self-realization….like the replicants in [i]Bladerunner the movie [/i]- or Horselover Fat in Phil’s(Philip K. Dick) book [i]Valis[/i], or the main character in the movie [i]Waking Life[/i] and or Major Motoko Kusinagi in the anime movie [i]Ghost in the Shell[/i].
GITS even uses a quote from the bible to illustrate the point, “Now I see through a glass darkly/then we shall see face to face” Corinthians I, 13:11
And of course, Phil’s [i]Scanner Darkly [/i]and Bergman’s [i]Through a Glass Darkly[/i] deal with similar themes. Self realization and the possible madness if the realization is too much for the individual to bear…
ya know, light carefree kind of concerns 😉