All of Us Strangers is a truly impressive piece of work, vibrant and cohesive and thematically laser-focused even given—or perhaps despite—the laconic ease with which it seems to float, listless, through the story. Delightfully queer and exquisitely elusive, it is a profound exploration of emotional loss, deflection, and abandonment.
Do Police Dream of Submissive Sheep?
Blade Runner is remarkably insightful in its expression of a simple idea: that empathy—the ability to put one’s self in the shoes of another—is somehow fundamental to what it is that makes us human. Any animal can dominate others, any animal can engineer a measure of order and habit and hierarchy. These are not higher-order mechanisms. But empathic responses? That is a rarer thing.
