I know that a descendent is play the role of the ancestor.....which is cool. I wish I had this sort of history to fall back on. I know the movie is about an Adams......I didn't miss that either. Thanks for the conversation Alli :) >I get the point. Mine was, the movie seems to be about an Adams (two >actually) with a descendant playing the role of the ancestor. Can't get >much more genealogical than that... > > "Michel Foucault's concept of genealogy is the history of the position of > the subject which traces the development of people and society through > history. His genealogy of the subject accounts for the constitution of > knowledges, discourses, domains of objects etc., without having to make > reference to a subject which is either transcendental in relation to the > field of events or runs in its empty sameness throughout the course of > history."