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Movies(fiction)
[Summary] The Imitation Game: A True Story That Alan Turing Decrypted Enigma (Director Morten Tyldum, Starring Benedict Cumberbatch)
Alan Turing, a brilliant mathematician who developed the basic principles of computers, broke the strongest encryption machine, Enigma, which was once considered "impossible to decipher". After watching the movie "The Imitation Game", I learned about his unfortunate life, which led to his suicide due to prejudice despite having saved more than 14 million lives. -
Movies(fiction)
Genocidal Organ: A Movie That Confronts Our Indifference (Director Murase Shuko, Original Project Itoh)
Living in a world that's too convenient, we stop imagining about "how this convenience was created". This "indifference" can definitely make the world worse. From the anime movie "Genocidal Organ" based on Project Itoh's novel, we can learn about the "cruelty of indifference" and the importance of "imagination". -
Movies(fiction)
[Movie] Three Billboards: A Critique of Internet Society (Director Martin McDonagh, Starring frances mcdormand)
To argue that something is "correct," we need a "standard of correctness." However, even with that, the question of whether "anything goes if it's not regulated" can be problematic. The movie "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri" uses three analog tools, or signboards, to expose the realities of modern internet society and make us think about the “difficulty of ‘correctness’." -
Movies(fiction)
[Review] Movie “Detroit”: How Power Corrupts and the Tragedy of Injustice (Director Kathryn Bigelow)
When those in power abuse their authority, the citizens are powerless. In such situations, what choices do we have? The movie "Detroit," which is based on a real event from 50 years ago where a white police officer threatened and killed black men, shows us the horrors of "injustice by those in power." -
Non-Fiction/Liberal Arts
[Review] Movie “Denial”: The Fight for Holocaust Facts on Trial (Director Mick Jackson, Original Deborah E. Lipstadt)
In a British trial, there was a dispute over whether or not the Holocaust happened. Based on this shocking true story, "Denial" raises questions about "what is the truth?" and "how should we believe information?" In a world where the term "fake news" is commonly used, this is a fact that we should know. -
Non-Fiction/Liberal Arts
[Book] Umberto Eco Says: How Forgetting Creates Culture: “N’espérez pas vous débarrasser des livres”
Umberto Eco, a world-renowned literary scholar and devotee of the "paper book," makes a truly thrilling argument that "books are valuable because of their function of forgetting". From the conversation in "N'pspérez pas vous débarrasser des livres," we learn about the disadvantages of "electronic data without the property of forgetting" and the possibilities of the "book".