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Okorafor's "Death of the author" for some reason has made me think of a book I read in my 20s, it was Pirandello's "Six Characters in search of an Author. Maybe, because we have been living in such a boring age, no matter how technology has developed (Maybe because of that) we haven't seen so much remakes on the cinemas as in other times. Even the Fine Arts and Architecture has focused much more in deconstructing things, concepts ,and ideas. IT has given us the concept of BETA, the eternal development (which should be a good thing), and suddenly the whole real world is a BETA world, we've been thrown on a eternal present repeating ourselves and our habits.

But when S. Bishop cites:

“the meat of the story lies… not in magical mass destruction, but in what we do to each other when we feel the rules are getting fuzzy, and what steps we have to take to reassert the law—and why.”

She's so right. It is similar to Frank Costello's questioning on The Departed (2006) "When you are facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?". It's all about how we die, we can knell down or stand face our destiny. Death is not necessarily that one that ends everything but our daily death, the one that makes us to think about our actions and behaviours.