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Reflexiones

Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): La Barca de Teseo

Edge of tomorrow: bergsonian duration and cinematic temporality

Submitted
October 28, 2025
Published
2025-11-10

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay analyzes how contemporary cinema represents the relationship between time, consciousness, and ethical action, taking as reference Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002), The Time Machine (Pal, 1960; Wells, 2002), and Edge of Tomorrow (Liman, 2014). Through the lens of Kant and Bergson, temporality is examined as an ontological category and lived experience, showing how cinematic heroes embody the possibility of intervening in their own destiny and that of the collective. Audiovisual narrative allows the materialization of complex philosophical concepts, such as Bergsonian duration and Kantian limits of time, highlighting the tension between the inexorable and the human capacity to act consciously to redeem past and future errors.

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