Book should be on Amazon, others in the series are.
Yes, the film did have a melancholic sense of displacement - X-Files in the classic sense is now a lost golden age which is pretty much inaccessible owing not just to the age of the stars, but to the stupid choices made in the last couple of seasons. The only possible mode for a new film is elegaic.
The thematic parallels were beautifully drawn - not just the implications of surgery and medicine in general, but explorations of love, loss and the possibility of hope. I didn't get Scully's last look as freaky, I saw it as the affirmation of hope towards which the whole film had been struggling. But it was a surprisingly mature and open-ended conclusion. No cheesy absolute answers here.
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Yes, the film did have a melancholic sense of displacement - X-Files in the classic sense is now a lost golden age which is pretty much inaccessible owing not just to the age of the stars, but to the stupid choices made in the last couple of seasons. The only possible mode for a new film is elegaic.
The thematic parallels were beautifully drawn - not just the implications of surgery and medicine in general, but explorations of love, loss and the possibility of hope. I didn't get Scully's last look as freaky, I saw it as the affirmation of hope towards which the whole film had been struggling. But it was a surprisingly mature and open-ended conclusion. No cheesy absolute answers here.