All Illusions Must Be Broken
Through the lens of American cultural anthropologist and Pultizer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN is a cinematic rumination on human mortality and the lengths to which we go to deny it.
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Ernest Becker's "The Denial of Death" may have been an indirect influence on Barbie (2023). Novelist Don DeLillo acknowledged that "The Denial of Death" inspired his novel "White Noise." Noah Baumbach adapted DeLillo's novel into the film White Noise (2022) which starred Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig. Immediately after that film, Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig co-wrote Barbie (2023), which itself turns on the main character's existential question, "You guys ever think about dying?"
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Through the lens of American cultural anthropologist and Pultizer Prize-winning author Ernest Becker, ALL ILLUSIONS MUST BE BROKEN is a cinematic rumination on human mortality and the lengths to which we go to deny it.