All the scifi movies you love are allegory

It’s been the fashion for scifi movies to be symbolic / metaphorical / allegorical since Kubrick’s 2001

Blimey.

There’s a thread on the movie Ad Astra burning in the Science Fiction group. And I need to find the gif of Mal Reynolds to express my feelings on it.

Look. Folks. Do people generally understand that Ad Astra is an allegory?

It’s been the fashion for scifi movies to be symbolic / metaphorical / allegorical since Kubrick’s 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Here’s a brief list of scifi movies in this style.

2001

Stalker

Solaris (both versions)

Blade Runner (+2049)

Gravity

Interstellar

The Martian

Ad Astra

For anyone who missed this lesson in English class, allegory is generally introduced with reference to Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan, which is a very clear allegory for the journey of a soul towards God.

Imagine some medieval peoples critiquing Pilgrim’s Progress for not being an accurate depiction of the geography of 1600s England? Or for messing up the time it takes to…