No One Will Save You is a 2023 American science fiction horror-thriller film written and directed by Brian Duffield and starring Kaitlyn Dever.
The film was released in theaters on September 19, 2023, and later by 20th Century Studios as a Hulu original film in the United States and on Disney+ Star internationally on September 22. (wiki)
spacetime coordinates: present day Istanbul / London >> 10th century BC ancient Israel / kingdom of Saba, 16th – 17th century, mid-19th Century Ottoman Empire.
Three Thousand Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed by George Miller and starring Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba. Miller wrote the screenplay with Augusta Gore, adapting the 1994 short story “The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye” by A. S. Byatt. Elba stars as a djinn who is freed by a professor (Swinton) and recounts his life to her. (wiki)
The Zero Theorem is a 2013 (U K / Romania / France co-production) science fiction film directed by Terry Gilliam and starring Christoph Waltz, David Thewlis, Mélanie Thierry, and Lucas Hedges. Written by Pat Rushin, the story centres on Qohen Leth (Waltz), a reclusive computer genius tasked with solving a formula that will determine whether life holds any meaning.
Gilliam has given conflicting statements about whether The Zero Theorem is meant as the third part of a satirical dystopian trilogy (“Orwellian triptych”) that began with 1985’s Brazil and continued with 1995’s 12 Monkeys.
In an e-mail sent to production designer Dave Warren, Gilliam concisely stated the look he intended for the film: “Neo Rauch + Ukulele Ike = The Zero Theorem”.
Commenting on the film’s misrepresentation by critics, Gilliam stated on his official Facebook page that one of the few critics to note that The Zero Theorem was not a comedy, but rather a tragedy, was Dave Lancaster of Cinemas Online. (wiki)
The Game of Life, also known simply as Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creating an initial configuration and observing how it evolves. It is Turing complete and can simulate a universal constructor or any other Turing machine. (wiki)
timespace coordinates: 1970s India / the Pacific Ocean / Mexico – 2000’s Montreal
Life of Pi is a 2012 survival drama film based on Yann Martel‘s 2001 novel of the same name. Directed by Ang Lee, the film’s adapted screenplay was written by David Magee, and it stars Suraj Sharma, Irrfan Khan, Rafe Spall, Tabu Hashmi, Adil Hussain, and Gérard Depardieu. The storyline revolves around an Indian man named “Pi” Patel, telling a novelist about his life story, and how at 16 he survives a shipwreck and is adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger. (wiki)
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