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1. Architaba Gohil
Semester 3
Topic – existentialism in Hollywood
Paper 9 The Modernist literature
Year 2016-18
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar
University

2. • A philosophy that emphasizes the uniqueness and isolation of
the individual experience in a hostile or indifferent
universe, regards human existence as unexplainable, and
stresses freedom of choice and responsibility for the
consequences of one's acts.

3. Existentialism in Hollywood

4. Interstellar
• Cooper not only questions what
is right and wrong in a difficult
situation but he questions just
where humanity belongs in the
universe
• His character alone gives the
audience an inevitable existential
crisis and fascination with the
universe as he chooses
humanity’s fate and the stars
over his family
• We are taken on terrifying
journey through the galaxy in
which Many questions on ethics
and existentialism are raised.

5. Inception
• Dom Cobb- His existential
moment occurs on the
‘Bottom level’ of the dream,
where he must finally let go
his dead wife. He chooses to
leave and move on with his
life. So he embraces the real
though flawed version of life
and chooses to get back to
his children

6. Inception
• His existential moment
comes after he breaks
into his own
subconscious and finds
that idea panted there by
the other that his father
wants his son to not try
to emulate him but to
become his own man and
build his own life.

7. Life of pi
• Pi suffers his existential
circumstance his
shipwreck, then , after and
only after this circumstance
his wills his own essence,
after he chooses to live and
not to die.

8. • If person have to choose anyone thing no
answers until the man chooses one for
himself. No moral theory could help him
inside because no one else’s advice could lead
him to decision that was truly authentic.
• In Interstellar Cooper chooses humanity’s fate and
the stars over his family
• In Inception Dom Cobb chooses to leave and
move on with his life.
• In Life of Pi, Pi chooses to live and not to die.

9. References
• http://alexforrest.com/2011/02/inception-
and-existentialism-nihilism/
• https://www.google.co.in