Can you give examples of other sci-fi shows/books along this line? I’m loving Severance at the moment (still on season 1)
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The Apple TV show “Severance” is mind fucking presented as entertainment.
It imagines a process whereby you can be made to forget all your personal history. Employers use it so they can have workers who don’t care about anything except the company and their jobs. At the end of the day the ’original you’ comes back for 16 hours.
I can think of some other science fiction that deals with the same idea.
pturn1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
First chapter of “Creatures of Light And Darkness.” Roger Zelazny. A god controls a gladiator’s mind and removes all memories of his past.
TV show ‘The Prisoner.’ Psychoman episode. The bad guys convince a man he is someone else, then tell him he needs to pretend to be the man he was.
“Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind” Never seen it myself, but the plot involves getting memory wipes to get over bad relationships.
“We Can Remember It For You Wholesale” by Philip K. Dick. Basis of the movie ‘Total Recall.’
“The Forever War.” Joe Haldeman. In order to train soldiers quickly, the troops are dropped into tanks where they ‘live’ other lives. You are a Zulu warrior fighting with spears, or a Hessian cavalryman, or a Burmese partisan.
Venator@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
“Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind” is really good, would highly recommend watching it
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
I recently played Signalis which explored these themes in an awesome manner. (It’s a survival horror game, but speaking as someone who isn’t great with horror, it wasn’t too bad on that front.)