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Karsten Runquist

Man Carrying Thing

Jacob Geller

Top Tracks of Like Stories of Old

The Marvelization of Cinema

What is Storytelling Entropy?

Introduction

Hollow Franchises

Corporate Passion

Breaking the Cycle

Meaningful Engagement

In Search of Adequate Images

Competing Filmmaking Philosophies

What is Ecstatic Truth?

The Problem With Adventure Movies Today

Who We Really Are... When Everything Goes Wrong

Introduction to Existential Cinema

The Absurdist Philosophy Of Synecdoche, New York

Honorable Mentions

Marvel at the Multiverse

A Brief Intro to Quantum Mechanics

That Funny Feeling

The Myth of Heroic Masculine Purpose

More Relevant Than Ever

Cathedrals of the Senses

Don’t Look Up – A Problematic Metaphor For Climate Change?

The Missing Key to Understanding Christopher Nolan

Rick and Morty are here too

Lies of Heroism – Redefining the Anti-War Film

Accidentally Meaningful

Sucked Into the Void

Cinematic Crises of Faith

From Sublime Wonder to Humanism

Zugzwang

Converging Timelines

A Secular Upbringing

The Tragedy of Oppenheimer

The Inner Chronicle of What We Are

Black Pills and Member Berries

Wubbalubbadubdub

The Hopeless Dream of Being

Marvel Can't Keep a Secret

Alone with Infinite Selves

The Burden of Being

Your Life is Not a Hero's Journey

Why We Can't Save Those We Love

Cosmic Meaning

Unavoidable Truth

The Power of the Monologue

Ironic Detachment is for Suckers

The problem of adapting interactivity

Hope in the Dark

Last Year's Additions

Modern Stories

9 The Best Debut Film of the Year

A Case Study, and a Reappreciation

THE MAN OF HEROIC MASCULINE PURPOSE

The Real Purpose of an Adventure

Why Vigilantes Can't Deliver Meaningful Justice

In Search of Meaning

DETACHMENT FROM REALITY IS THE ROAD TO ESCAPIST FANTASY

III. Character Motivations

The Great Paradigm Shift

The Fundamental Difference Between Stories And Reality

Masculinity vs. Modernity

TO FEEL RIGHTEOUS, BUT NOT ABOUT ALL THE RIGHT THINGS

1 The Foodie one

Morality and Virtue

HEROIC MEN DIE BUT THEY DON'T DO LAUNDRY

Terrence Malick's Fight Club

A new philosophy

The Timeless Struggle

Upholding Awareness

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In Search of Silence

Multiverses, Nihilism, and How it Feels to be Alive Right Now

Do People Even Like Movies Anymore?

I LET ARAGORN DOWN, AND MAYBE, YOU DID TOO

What was missing

A comparison with comic book adaptations

Destroying a World

Movie Monologues That Changed My Entire Worldview

The Real Implications Of Ex Machina's Turing Test

The Last of Us

When Two Filmmakers Make the Same Movie

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The Japanese Perspective?

Can We Be Heroes Again? Confronting the Banality of Modern Evil

The Complete Philosophy of The Lord of the Rings

Back to video games

The Aesthetics of Modern Action

The Problem of Scale

The Movie that did go there

A Promethean Horror

In Search of the Distinctively Human | The Philosophy of Blade Runner 2049

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The Dynamics between Cinema and History

Where Movies Fall Short

Cinema of Meaning

The Importance of Adventurous Characters

The Unfulfilled Potential of Minecraft – Assuming a Different Perspective

In Search Of Absolute Beauty

Why Apocalypse Stories Feel Different Now

A good, but easy video game adaptation

Towards an Objective Ideal

Tortured for Eternity

VII. Beyond Prometheus

The Great Existential Films

The Reality of Nuclear Violence

How to depict Historical Trauma?

How Movies Convey Size

Overwhelming Time and Space

Why the Best Religious Movies are Godless

Why Oppenheimer’s Ending Felt So Devastating

The Big Reveal!

What Makes a Great King? Exploring the Archetype of the King in Movies and Television

Why Fallout was the real challenge

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The Weight of Infinity

A Dialogue with the Cosmos

What if Nolan went there?

Creating Tangible New Worlds

The Rise of Second Unit Directing

A Brief Overview

Confronting Archer Green privately

How Fallout adapted gameplay

A Cinema of Monologues

A Journey Through 9 Movies

The Problem with Previsualization

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Station Eleven

A Different Kind of Love Story

The Space Game Paradox

Arguments For

The Value of Great Action Scenes

Making it Feel Real

From a Great Adventure, to a Great Movie

The Vague Grief of Lost Potentiality

Transcending Time | Interstellar's Hidden Meaning Behind Love and Time

A Star Wars Story

The Inevitable Evolution

Why it just works

Lessons from Last Year’s Best Fight Scene

Intro

The Strangely Intimate Reality of Time Travel

Different Modes of Engagement

Arguments Against

The Journey Home

The Psychology of Severance | Who You Are... Without Memory

The Troubled Relation Between Games and War

The Tree of Life | Crafting an Existential Masterpiece

Life is Not a Hero's Journey (Unabridged)

Myths and Allegories

The Real Love Story?

Fixed in Time, Fluid in the Mind

A New Era

What all this means

Now what?

Adapting a Fallout's broader themes, meanings & vibe

Concluding Thoughts

A Search for Meaning

An Adult Understanding

Peaceful Resignation

An Enigmatic Moment

Concluding announcement

The Apocalyptic Filmmaker that Haunts My Soul

The Defining Story of Our Time

Why the Big Reveal in The Rings of Power Didn't Work

3 Types of Identity Crisis (and how to deal with them)

Dawn of a New Metaphor

The Cornerstone of a Species

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Overcoming Maladaptive Daydreaming

This YouTuber Won't Stop Plagiarizing

Confronting Archer Green again

Who are we dealing with here?

The Office – How Michael Scott Makes a Sale

The real harm of plagiarism

How to not do plagiarism

Rise of a Reboot

The problem of subjectivity

A Somber Conclusion

Why we should want more video game adaptations

A Misunderstood Prequel

That Which Makes Us, Us

The pantheon of humanity's storytelling

Resetting the Thematic Approach

Who Are We Without Storytelling?

Sanctifying History

The 10 Best Movies of 2023

A Child’s Landscape

Capítulos

The Philosophy of Mr. Nobody – How To Make Meaningful Choices

Life is Not a Hero's Journey

Why the Planet of the Apes Just Hits Different

To Live in a World that Holds Nothing Sacred

The Lover Within | How Moonlight Relates to ALL Men

Why You Keep Returning To Skyrim – Story Worlds as Sacred Spaces

Transcending Heidegger – The Cinema Of Terrence Malick

When the Filmmakers Actually Understand the Gameplay

What Ceasar Learns the Hard Way

Military Victory vs. Moral Victory

One Movie, One Scene

The Essence of a Rebellion

Perfect Movie Metaphors

Take a Voyage

The Troubled Relation Between Video Games and War

Praying Through Cinema – Understanding Andrei Tarkovsky

Vigilantes, Retribution, and the Pursuit of Meaningful Justice

How Modern Audiences Are Failing Cinema

The Death of Cinematic Curiosity

The Myth of Heroic Masculine Purpose, and How it’s Harming Men

The Metaphysics of Inception – Engaging Ontological Uncertainty

The Philosophy of The Fountain – Escaping Our Mental Prisons

Kingdom of Heaven | A Kingdom of Conscience, or Nothing - Kant's Moral Philosophy

Villages of the Damned

The Ultimate Christopher Nolan Analysis: Road to Oppenheimer

Stoicism in Gladiator – Meditations II.

Lies of Heroism – Redefining the Anti-War Game

The Before Trilogy | Portraying a Real Relationship

This is a Nolan movie

A Cosmic Conflict

Changing the Meaning of Hope

Setting the Context

What Started It All

VII. The Guiding Hand of Ilúvatar

Freedom and Evil

A Mosaic of Memories, Artifacts and Imagination

III. At What Cost?

A Story of Hope and Despair

Responsibility and Salvation

VIII. A Mythology of Hope

One Scene to Rule Them All

The Leftovers

The Full Oppenheimer Discussion

An Honest Look at The Last of Us: Part 2 – Complete Review

Prometheus & Covenant | Building a Mythos of Savage Creation

How (Not) To Tell a Meaningful Zombie Story

The Psychology of Severance | Who You Are... Without Your Memory

Movies that Show the True Size of the Universe

En busca de lo distintivamente humano | La filosofía de Blade Runner 2049

The Ultimate Christopher Nolan Analysis: The Breakout Years

Unraveling Death Stranding's Existentialist Themes | Complete Review

The Fantasy of Ultimate Purpose – How Our Entertainment Reveals Our Deepest Desire

Why Humanity Keeps Imagining Its Own Apocalypse

III. The Greatest Weight

In the Shadow of Nietzsche – Understanding the Films of Béla Tarr

Your Name – What Makes Us Happy?

Experiencing the True Face of Humanity

Fight Club – How (Not) To Become A Space Monkey

The Humanistic Philosophy of Akira Kurosawa

The Unexplored Depths of Spider-Man 3 – Facing the Dragon of Grandiosity

A Árvore da Vida | Criando uma Obra-prima Existencialista

Presentation Issues

An Uncompromising Vision of History

The Limits of Practical Effects

Nolan, Nietzsche and Eternity

Causality as a Human Construct

A Fundamentally Misguided Approach?

Can You Hear the Music?