Posts Tagged future

We Come From The Future

January 21, 2012 by Ian MacKenzie
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung APOCALYPTICISM is an actual word. According to Wikipedia, it is “the religious belief that there will be an apocalypse, a term which originally referred to a revelation of God’s will, but now usually refers to belief [...]

Do Films Like ‘Children of Men’ Warn Us Of Alternative Futures?

June 16, 2008 by Ian MacKenzie
Last year, while watching Children of Men in the theatre, I remember feeling a slight twinge of deja vu. It wasn’t the personal type that makes you wonder if you’ve dreamt a certain experience that actually came true. Rather, it was the unshakable dread that here, on screen, was a bleak vision of a future [...]