THTRFLM 1T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mind Control, Forced Migration, Devaluation
16 Dec 2014
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Depicts a negative vision of the future in order to comment on the present (ex. Structured around the idea of a company that harvests bodies from indian donors to extend the lives of people in the global north. Trades of human organs is both a metaphor and a reality. Play is allegorical of exploitative aspects of globalization today. Also allegorizes the influence of the west upon indian culture. Exploitation of countries with less economic power. Fragmentation of experience/ rise of the virtual. When om says you think i did it lightly . Consumerism: wants to be rich; even though he"s doing it for survival, he also has this dream of being extremely rich. Devaluating his culture; like monkeys in a hot cage ->othering;he is assigning an animal status to his neighbours, their lives aren"t as valuable as his. Also biological determinism in evolutionary (monkey is lower than the human).
