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them. In this way, identical human beings will be created, preventing the
possibility of becoming original. In his pessimistic conception of the future,
this will be the characteristic of ‘the age of Hyperreality’. Baudrillard’s
theories of the future constitute a particularly useful vision and premonition
concerning the confusion between reality and unreality and the future of our
society in the time of the technology of reproduction, hence the recurrence
of his writings in this thesis. Furthermore, it is apparent that it is the medium
of cinema that is simultaneously immersed and a participant in this process.
As a visual technological medium it is clearly affected by technological
innovation, but, at the same time, it is a medium that filters and expresses
the ideas, fears and hopes of our societies. Thus, cinema and technology, the
confusion of reality and unreality that they produce and reproduce find
themselves at the crux of this thesis and of Luna.

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