Review of Naked Singularity (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 22 Jul 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

Ridley Scott produces the film adaptation of the book "A Naked Singularity" (Sergio De La Pava, 2008), Chase Palmer's first feature that has the merit of clarifying, as never before in a movie, the dichotomy founding the philosophy of the time: Voltaire against Leibniz, the "Candide" (1759) against the "Theodicy" (1710). "If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?". The paradigm shift, the breaking of the gnoseontological scheme, takes place through science (fiction): transcending legal laws thanks to physical and cosmological possibilities, the injustice of the system with reptilians and the "Gravitation" by Misner, Thorne and Wheeler (1973). Confused? Why shouldn't it be? Still no one has shown that the problem is solvable, but at least here we do not get bogged down in directors like Richard Curtis, who allows himself to provide a haughtily defeatist answer, or like Nolan, who stages negentropy in an rambling spy-movie. Palmer's real flaws are a very bad photography and, together with De La Pava, "the clumsy jumble of tones and ideas" (RT). Personally I add the lack of a different and complementary point of view: the female one like the protagonist Laura of "Press Play" (Björkman 2022).