After the Dark (aka The Philosophers) (trailer)

by MaryAnn Johanson

Fri, Mar 15, 2013

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This looks totally fascinating! A movie about ideas? It’ll never get released.

Would be delighted to be wrong about that…

Thanks to reader Mate for the heads-up on this one.

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Bluejay

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 1:57pm

It does indeed look very interesting.

This particular idea — “who gets to survive?” — isn’t exactly alien to audiences, so I don’t see why this movie wouldn’t appeal. I just wonder if the knowledge that, within the film, these are only thought experiments — that the life-and-death stakes aren’t real, and that the characters are always safely debating in the classroom in the real world — wouldn’t reduce the audience’s investment in the story.

RogerBW

reply to Bluejay

Sun, Mar 17, 2013 12:37pm

Yes, that’s my un-enthusiasm summed up – seeing a made-up story about people making things up won’t engage me as seeing a made-up story about people doing things. Might still be interesting, might turn into a Lord of the Flies clone; a lot for me would depend on what the author’s Big Message turns out to be, and how well it’s supported.

FormerlyKnownAsBill

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 2:03pm

i don’t know why it has to look like Philosophers: 90210, but yeah, could be interesting. i’m already giving it an A for effort.

Anne-Kari

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 3:55pm

Hmm. I’m interested, definitely, but I think a more accurate title would be “The Sociologists”. Or maybe, “The Social Psychologists”.

Mate Sršen

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 3:56pm

It can’t possibly turn out as interesting as it looks, but still… there’s always hope.

FormerlyKnownAsBill

Fri, Mar 15, 2013 6:30pm

for a similar feel (apparently, from this trailer), see the really-pretty-decent “The Exam”

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1258197/

Gemmabeta

Sat, Mar 16, 2013 6:31am

So basically, the dramatized the arguments of an Ethics 101 course? Looks interesting (and hey, is that Ginny Weasley?).

I can see the Philo Major/PoliSci drinking game now: one shot if you hear a argument you employed in class debate, two if you hear an argument you refuted in class.

It’s like a more accessible version of Waking LIfe without all that post modernist bullshit.

David

Tue, Mar 19, 2013 11:53am

Whoa. This could be fascinating- how to expose philosophy to a culture that barely recognizes its existence?

RogerBW

reply to David

Tue, Mar 19, 2013 12:02pm

On reflection it seems to share a lot of visual style with the Outer Limits remake… which I regard as mostly a good thing. There’s not enough thinky film out there, still less thinky filmed SF.