Death & Immortality in Cinema - Lab of Immortality

This is the second chapter in the trilogy on death, imagination, and the dream of immortality — based on my university thesis on science-fiction cinema.In this episode, we enter the laboratory of imagination: the world of science fiction.A place where faith and reason merge, where scientists become modern priests, and where every invention hides an ancient longing — to live longer, to love longer, to outlast time itself.From Frankenstein to Blade Runner, from Solaris to 2001: A Space Odyssey, this episode explores how cinema has turnedscience into a language of transcendence — and how, when we try to defeat death, we end up inventing myth.Referenced:Mary Shelley, FrankensteinAndrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1972), Stalker (1979)Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)Steven Spielberg, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977), Minority Report (2002)Ridley Scott, Blade Runner (1982)Abel Gance, J’accuse (1919)Edgar MorinGiuseppe O. Longo