Scifi = Scifilo
To save the night, I bought a book titled “Scifi = Scifilo” (original title: “The philosopher at the end the universe”, ISBN 85-7316-392-5). Actually, I read the first chapter before seeing “Episode III”, so I saved my night before ruining it. 
This is a book about philosophy and such, but the author takes the route of using movies as base for every point he does. The first chapter is about… we. What we are, what we are doing here, and such. To point that, he uses Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein” as to point what we see and how the others see us. Actually, he uses much more “Sisifo”, the man in the Greek mythology that had to move a big boulder over a hill, just to see it go down when get there. Anyway, he points that we see our lives like a story, where we are the main characters. But that’s the same for everyone: we are the main characters of our lives, but just some supporting character or even just doing a small part in other people’s lives. And, using “Sisifo”, he points that what we accomplish in life is almost like preparing others to do the same thing we will do our entire life. A nice way to get depressed.
Other movies he uses are Matrix, Terminator 1 and 2, Total Recall and 6th Day, Minority Report, Hallow Man, Independence Day and Alien, Star Wars and Blade Runner.
So, here I go to my little trip to Philosophy for Dummies.
