Surname 1
Watch Squid Games or Sorry to Bother You. Analyze the movie and then connect your
analysis to one or more of the readings discussed thus far. Be sure to discuss about
various forms of statelessness and enslavement. Also discuss whether the solutions
provided by the philosophers discussed so far would be helpful for those in Squid Games
or Sorry to Bother You. Post your reflections on the discussion board in 900 words.
course materials
https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/GeneologyofMorals.pdf
https://politicaleducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/
CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39ec764dbd7179cf1243c/t/
5f85c390635cac03f35913d5/1602601934251/What%27s+Next+Report+.pdf
Movie Review: Don't Look Up
Don’t Look Up is an ingenious and unapologetic satirical film about an American future
whereby people are obsessed with celebrities and social media to the ignorance of another that
can cause harm to the population. In this case, Dr. Randall Mindy has conclusive evidence that a
giant comet will hit earth and wipe it. Don’t Look Up is an outstanding film since it highlights a
dystopian society and its detrimental effect.
The Messages Conveyed in the Film
Don’t Look Up encompasses a variety of issues and themes that have been relevant to
moral society ever since it was released. From class struggles to genetic engineering, the novel
explores a future where infants and children are compelled into believing State doctrines as
absolute truth and embryos are treated by chemicals to ensure they suit a particular class. The
director was focused on those who had little or no say in society, those who were at the grace of
the all-mighty elite (Gewertz par.3). His notion of the helpless population is still a typical theme
in the modern popular culture.
, Surname 2
Throughout the movie, the director paints a portrait of worldwide dictatorship regulating
a consumerist and totalitarian welfare state. He presents a world in which there is no poverty,
crime, war, disease, and unemployment, and in which threats are hardly required or used. The
citizens are safe, never sick, not afraid of death, and well-off. Human beings are unaware of real
human passions and emotions; people have no parents, no spouses, or children, and there is no
material attachment, no jealousy, hurt, or rejection (Gewertz par.6). Further, the world does not
have religion and whereby pleasure and lust have substituted empathy and love. The director’s
awareness of infant conditioning robustly highlights an age in which kids as young as five are
glued to televisions, addicted to iPads, and grown on artificial snacks and fast foods filled with
additive substances. It highlights an age in which humans interact with a smart phone, laptop, or
tablet instead of other human beings. The film illustrates the world he visions as a deceptive and
evil nightmare in which the population lead sterile lives, restrained in an anaesthetized utopia.
The Concepts of Logic and Reasoning
The film makes one to reason about the future of the Western world. The Western World
has perhaps shifted more rapidly in the last decade than any other time in history. With the
emergence of electronic entertainment and the internet, as well as the ideology of capitalism
being part of everyday life, some sections of Don’t Look Up that were simply a scary fictional
twist are increasingly becoming real (Nick par.9). The consumer society described in the novel is
highly familiar. The director may have composed it as satire of the world in which he existed;
however, it perhaps holds even more weigh presently
The Lesson from the Movie
A most striking lesson from Don’t Look Up is the reversed difference between private
and public. In the narration, relationships are public. Everyone knows the business of everyone
Watch Squid Games or Sorry to Bother You. Analyze the movie and then connect your
analysis to one or more of the readings discussed thus far. Be sure to discuss about
various forms of statelessness and enslavement. Also discuss whether the solutions
provided by the philosophers discussed so far would be helpful for those in Squid Games
or Sorry to Bother You. Post your reflections on the discussion board in 900 words.
course materials
https://philosophy.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia-conferences/GeneologyofMorals.pdf
https://politicaleducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/
CLR_James_The_Black_Jacobins.pdf
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee39ec764dbd7179cf1243c/t/
5f85c390635cac03f35913d5/1602601934251/What%27s+Next+Report+.pdf
Movie Review: Don't Look Up
Don’t Look Up is an ingenious and unapologetic satirical film about an American future
whereby people are obsessed with celebrities and social media to the ignorance of another that
can cause harm to the population. In this case, Dr. Randall Mindy has conclusive evidence that a
giant comet will hit earth and wipe it. Don’t Look Up is an outstanding film since it highlights a
dystopian society and its detrimental effect.
The Messages Conveyed in the Film
Don’t Look Up encompasses a variety of issues and themes that have been relevant to
moral society ever since it was released. From class struggles to genetic engineering, the novel
explores a future where infants and children are compelled into believing State doctrines as
absolute truth and embryos are treated by chemicals to ensure they suit a particular class. The
director was focused on those who had little or no say in society, those who were at the grace of
the all-mighty elite (Gewertz par.3). His notion of the helpless population is still a typical theme
in the modern popular culture.
, Surname 2
Throughout the movie, the director paints a portrait of worldwide dictatorship regulating
a consumerist and totalitarian welfare state. He presents a world in which there is no poverty,
crime, war, disease, and unemployment, and in which threats are hardly required or used. The
citizens are safe, never sick, not afraid of death, and well-off. Human beings are unaware of real
human passions and emotions; people have no parents, no spouses, or children, and there is no
material attachment, no jealousy, hurt, or rejection (Gewertz par.6). Further, the world does not
have religion and whereby pleasure and lust have substituted empathy and love. The director’s
awareness of infant conditioning robustly highlights an age in which kids as young as five are
glued to televisions, addicted to iPads, and grown on artificial snacks and fast foods filled with
additive substances. It highlights an age in which humans interact with a smart phone, laptop, or
tablet instead of other human beings. The film illustrates the world he visions as a deceptive and
evil nightmare in which the population lead sterile lives, restrained in an anaesthetized utopia.
The Concepts of Logic and Reasoning
The film makes one to reason about the future of the Western world. The Western World
has perhaps shifted more rapidly in the last decade than any other time in history. With the
emergence of electronic entertainment and the internet, as well as the ideology of capitalism
being part of everyday life, some sections of Don’t Look Up that were simply a scary fictional
twist are increasingly becoming real (Nick par.9). The consumer society described in the novel is
highly familiar. The director may have composed it as satire of the world in which he existed;
however, it perhaps holds even more weigh presently
The Lesson from the Movie
A most striking lesson from Don’t Look Up is the reversed difference between private
and public. In the narration, relationships are public. Everyone knows the business of everyone
