The narrator presents us with a history of filmdom where opposite things combine to bring us tension, enjoyment, and pain. If everything stayed on an even keel, we would be bored to death. So we give human qualities to non-human things, like HAL in "2001." We have characters who speak of death as a glorious thing, like Dracula. He delves into the history of literature and social commentary, using Arthur Koestler as a source. The logic those who are desperate is to lie. He even uses Pinocchio as a figure for this with his growing nose. He goes back to figures that are inherently good or evil in mythology, like the sphinx, the chimera, and others. Even the monsters, such as the Alien, have human qualities such as teeth and vacant eyes, which are borrowed from humans. I think this is the best episode in the series so far.
Review of Part 5 - The Power of Paradox
