Dead Man's Path

The story of the old vs the new is the main theme here, as well as what happens when you try to completely abolish the old ways all at once. The whole snooty reactoin of the new ways certainly didn't help matters, and the way they just replaced everything at once without compromise is reminiscent of the way colonization worked.

broke back mountain

What do i even need to say here? It's the gay cowboy story! a powerful romance between two married men, but not to each other obviously. Pretty much everyone has heard of this one, but i'd like to hear the analysis before i say anything interesting.

Everything that rises must converge

This is an interesting take on racism with a hint of realism. more to follow after class.

The voorman problem

Wow... I... I really don't know how to react to that. One one hand it was impressive visually and such, but... I'm not sure what the real point was. Why did this all happen? Why did the psychiatrist deserve this? What even happened here? ...I'm going to need more opinions before I do anything with this.

there will be soft rain

Ah, the post apocalyptic tale. Not even the standard, what would humans do in the apocalypse, but rather one of... what happens to everything else? This ONE house survived by sheer luck, and it was automated for who knows how long. It was eerie just how much it was taking care of itself... and ironically the one thing that killed it was the only other survivor of the bombs, the dog. When the dog died, it triggered the chain of events that lead to the house's destruction. Even when something survives the apocalypse, it still has an ending. Something as automated and self sufficient as the house still died eventually.

All eventually rots away and fades, and that is a fact of life one must accept. Humanity appeared to have already done so at this point, so it was only a matter of time before the machinery they left behind did as well.