Uma Thurman's take on PKD
While surfing the net recently, I came across this 2003 Wired interview on her work on (the underwhelming) Paycheck.
Uma sure knows her PKD:
It's all very Buddhist. Reality is an illusion - that's the principle of ancient Buddhist thought. And the basic idea of being reborn is that you erase the memory. Everybody is interconnected, and you're working out your karma with people - so you get erased, but all work left undone has to be completed ...
There's something very earthly in his imaginings. You don't have to set them on Mars - they're projections from here on Earth. There's class struggle, there's government deceit. And these nightmarish fantasies about corporations owning the world - I mean, obviously there's a reason people relate to that.
Uma's father is Professor Robert Thurman, a leading Buddhist scholar at Columbia University.
For a quick summary of PKD's philosophy, click here.
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