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Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already there, this book provides philosophical readings of a number of ‘arthouse’ and Hollywood films.

A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment

Introduction: Film as Freedom: The Meaning of Film as Philosophy





1. Implicating the Narrator, Implicating the Audience: Waltz with Bashir and Apocalypto





2. How to Represent a Past We Would Rather Forget: Hiroshima Mon Amour and Last Year at Marienbad





3. Learning from Conceptually Impossible Versions of Our World: Never Let Me Go and The Road





4. When Melancholia is Exactly What is Called For: Melancholia and Solaris





5. Gravity's arc; or Gravity: A Space Odyssey





6. The Fantasy of Absolute Safety through Absolute Power: The Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar





Conclusion: What have we learnt?