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The OA circulates around the idea that everything is connected,it questions the concept of multiple dimensions and whats on the other side, whether thats through the afterlife, or through another reality. It has made many of its audience believe in something better, something in themselves. Religious ceremonies, rituals, even in movement, have shown a blending of many aspects of the human psyche,...

There's a connection between 1950's Cinderella and Fight Club. Both the fairy godmother and Tyler Durden materialise right at the moment of the main characters almost hitting rock bottom. They create the hope for something new or something that needs to happen. In order for these manifestations to take place, whether in their minds or through magic, both their intentions are fixed on makin...

Thequote from T.S.Eliot, shared in an OA episode: "We shall not cease from exploration, And the end of all our exploring, Will be to arrive where we started, And know the place for the first time" It emphasises that history seems to repeat itself, but with each time the loop enlarges a bit with the added experience of the last. We (individually as well as collectively) grow a little and...

Final Fantasy VII also embraces the concept of Shinto, the Japanese religion revolving around 'kami', the supernatural beings or 'shinto gods' that inhabit all things considered important to life, such as wind, rain, mountains, trees, and rivers. There isn't really any fear of death either, because when humans die, they become kami and become one with the world, much like the l...

Why was Oppenheimer interested in Niel Bohr's work? The Bohr model of the atom shows negatively charged electrons travel in defined circular orbits around the positively charged nuclei (like tiny planets around a sun like our solar system). In this theory, electrons could jump from one orbit to another by emitting or absorbing energy. The further away the electron, the higher the energy, accou...

We apparently only use around 10% of our brain. In some films, we are presented with what would happen if we used more. What I find interesting is that, in films like Lucy and Limitless, it's in a form of a drug, that strangely does the same thing but we see different outcomes to what might happen. Copyright to Two Takes

The 'World Soul' or Anima Mundi (in Latin) is the connection between all living things, and like the soul is connected to the human body, it relates to the world as a life force, interacting with each other like neurons in the human brain; it is all one essence, just doing many many things at the same time, interlacing and interconnecting, working together. This can be said for GAIA and he...

When you find an alien egg, it's wise to not touch it, right? Could we say the same when these ideas spawn from both horror and comedy films? Take the Alien franchise, and then place it next to Gremlins. Both species hatch cocoon like eggs and wreck havoc on anyone they see. Was there a reason we have placed monsters as scary when coming out of a shell? Copyright to Two Takes

In Black Mirror's episode '15 Million Merits', Bing's expression and outburst about the injustice of how everyone is living shows the aspect of division of class, but more on point, about the pretence of a society that is based on choice, when really, as can understand, it is not. More clues, much like the 'Cuppliance' drink can emphasise this theory, another being the judg...

I guess we could all be driven insane by ghosts. In 2019's Joker and The Shining, there seems to be that connection, whether it was literal with Jack, or metaphorical with Arthur, we can all become like ghosts to each other through our own bitterness and selfishness it seems. Copyright to Two Takes

Analysing the 2017 romance drama Call Me By Your Name, an exploration of philosophical intrusions, views on ambigious friendship, the race of change and the next steps within relationships. Copyright to Two Takes

Sam Bell, from the film Moon, had to face a lot of challenges when finding his way back to Earth. Director Duncan Jones featured what happens next for Sam in a small cameo in his 2018 film Mute. We can see on the TV the continuation of what Sam had to go through, with him facing court, arguing with himself... Copyright to Two Takes

In the Black Mirror episode 'Shut Up And Dance', the anti-malware software Kenny downloads was called 'Shrive'. 'Shrive' is actually the an archaic term meaning to either confess your sins to a priest or to be absolved by them. The trollfaces, the people behind Shrive, might be fishing the internet for troublemakers, finding Kenny doing something he shouldn't have. This...

We have all seen films that present alien invasions in different manners. But what if Independence Day, showing the aliens and the inside of their mothership, was their first attempt and then they came back a second time and succeeded in Oblivion? We don't see the alien, but we see their mothership which strangely looks the same... Copyright to Two Takes

In The Wizard of Oz and The Return to Oz, the idea of things such as water killing a witch or an egg killing the Nome King, could only be linked to the power of wanting something so much it features in your imagination. Water was wanted in Kansas because of the drought, and the eggs were wanted because of the need for food. In Oz, things have a habit of coming true in the strangest of circumstance...

Analysing the video game Death Stranding (2019), exploring the connection from our reality to the world of the game, and the realisation of how close to the world of the dead we really are. Death Stranding, within it's created universe, has different strands that both connect and tangle within each other. How the history behind a made up world can reflect certain aspects of ours, whether that...

Black Mirror episodes have always been known to make the audience to question and perhaps even fear the reliance on technology. But in some various overlooked aspects, it can be observed that the thing we should be wary of is the people who use the technology in the first place. Technology has a function and a mindset that is like a machine. It calculates with the code engrained in its system. You...

There's a strange link between 1939's The Wizard of Oz and Fallout If you think about it, Diamond City and the Emerald City are the same. Not only because of the colour coincidence but because of the references. We see Dorothy at the beginning of the trail, with a swirl of red and yellow brick. In Fallout 4, if you follow the Freedom Trail left by the Railroad, you follow the red brick roa...

There's this theme within various films like Divergent, I Think We're Alone Now, Equals and Equilibrium, to name a few, that are fascinated with the connection of human suffering and the need for a utopian society. To eradicate human emotion, to take it away and to present oneself as a blank slate, does that present a peace of mind, or lack of true freedom? Copyright to Two Takes

In 1927, Heisenberg introduced the Uncertainty Principle according to which the electron's position and momentum can never be determined accurately. Oppenheimer found this fascinating as it contradicted Bohr's theory. The Uncertainty Principle contributed to the development of quantum mechanics and the quantum mechanical model of the atom by the fact that our knowledge of the properties of...

The Animatrix short story named 'Beyond' features the same occurrences that Jane Foster discovers in Thor: The Dark World. Both going to an abandoned building to find its reality isn't the same as ours. Things float or disappear. Could the aspects of the Matrix, be like the opening of portals to other worlds? Does the science match up to the fantasy? Copyright to Two Takes

Why was Oppenheimer named 'The American Prometheus'? The greek titan, Prometheus, was best remembered as the one that defied the Olympian gods, stole fire and gave it to humans to make their lives better. This can be the same for Oppenheimer in two ways. One, he gave them his creation of the atomic bomb, two, both Prometheus and Oppenheimer created powerful technology that needed to be use...

There is a moment within the second season of Loki that reminds me of the Avengers. Loki is with his friends in a loop of trying to save the TVA, with B-15, Mobius, O.B, Timely, Casey, and Silvia. Six people, differing skills that collide together to create the team. Loki is the only one, it seems, outside of everything that can make the difference. Copyright to Two Takes

Jaskier, the bard in the Witcher series, seems to follow his dreams in our reality as well. Joey Batey, the actor that plays Jaskier, is also in a dramatic, lyrical alt folk band, formed by himself and vocalist Madeline Hyland named The Amazing Devil when they met as working actors for the Royal Shakespeare Company in 2014. Find their music on Spotify to find the similarities between himself and h...

The symbolism of white animals, especially dogs, seem to represent innocence in a world of chaos. Films like High Rise and The Cell emphasis this theory, of a white animal in the midst of horror and depravity that seems to either succumb to the destruction by no fault of their own, or become a liability to the main antagonist. Their main reason is to show a little light in the darkness, and to emp...