Film Studies 1022 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Naomi Klein, Totalitarianism, Nativity Scene
4 Oct 2016
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Children of men takes place in the very near future and amplifies our reality. Nearly everything in the background references the real world. Ex. the image of dead cows in a field references an outbreak of foot-in-mouth disease. It presents the uk as the world"s only country with a functioning government. It refers to global migration trends and refugees rushing across borders. The film implies that the earth cannot survive our treatment and that therefore neither can we. Dystopia: an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmentally degraded one. We need to fear [those] who love systems more than people because they will attack anything or anyone that interferes with the realization of that system. (naomi klein) We must be careful when dreaming up these societies. People are not the priority of the system. There is an extremely oppressive centre of a large system.
