-There is a similarity between Hadden, a character from the movie Contact, and Edna, from The Incredibles. Both act more or less as guides or advisors. Both are trying to help but at the same time they are very ironical. Hadden is supposed to fund the project based on the information that has been received through a radio signal coming from another civillization and Edna is going to provide the incredibles with technological advanced suits that are going to protect them. Both are related to science. And they are showed in similar ways, for example, when Hadden asks Ellie, if she would like to be part of the mission, he says, “Wanna take a ride?” (minute 101) and smiles and the scene ends. And when Helen wants to find out where her husband is, Edna shows him a tracking device and asks her: “Would you like to find out?” (minute 61) and the scene ends.

-The idea of a prequel in movies is very similar to the logic of how postulates work in Kant. A prequel explains what should have happened first, so that something takes place later. Like in the Starwars franchise. In Kant´s framework, the Categorical Imperative presupposes the existence of freedom. I say similar and not identical because in Kant´s theory there is no room for many possible explanations (and those concepts are not given in time), but from the perspective of a movie director you can imagine different plots as altertanives, but you will pick one alternative as the best possible one, so that it makes sense. I am talking here about the way of thinking and not really about movies in themselves. In literature, Raise high the Roofbeam Carpenters and Seymour: an Introduction was written after Nine Stories, but it explains things that happened before.

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