Logan’s Run and Soylent Green are two dystopian movies that take place in the future under one big ruling government. Dystopia is the opposite of Utopia and is a world where everything possible can go wrong. It shows people a different way of thinking and examine a dissimilar lifestyle. In both films the society people grow up in is based on lies, people are divided into a class structure, and women are portrayed as weaker than men, however there is a difference in these class structures and the way women are treated. In the movie, people are kept from the truth. The characters grow up in a futuristic world where everyone dies at the age of thirty. Logan is a Sandman and his job is to kill the runners, people who try to run away instead of …show more content…
die. Everyone has a gem in their hand that will indicate when their time is up and people believe that after the thirty years they go on the Carousel where people are “renewed”. He is assigned by the government to find the sanctuary that people run off to instead of dying at thirty, and to do that he becomes a runner. He meets a lady, Jessica, that wears the symbol of the sanctuary and asks for her to take him there. Eventually they get to sanctuary which turns out to not exist. Instead, people are frozen into the walls by a shiny robot. Logan discovers a way out and they make it into the real world which is outside of Washington DC. All the buildings are falling apart and everything is covered in vines. Logan and Jessica find graves and don’t know what they are because in their society people die and disappear. They meet an old man who has many cats. When they meet the old man they cannot figure out why he has gray hair and wrinkles because they have never met anyone over the age of thirty. This shows them that people don’t have to die at thirty and that the government has lied to them. In the second movie, Soylent Corporations is a large company that controls people’s lives. In their society the city is overcrowded and people rely on the company’s product, Soylent Green, to survive. But the product is in short supply. Detective Thorn is investigating the murder of the CEO of this huge business. Throughout the movie the people’s despair can be seen. Many sleep on the streets because there is no where else to live and they have no money to buy supplies and eventually die of hunger. In one scene a little boy is found crying over his mom’s dead body, the boy is skinny and grimy and probably has nowhere to stay. Everyone relies on the huge corporations’ product to survive, but as the detective works through the mystery he discovers that Soylent Green is made of human corpses. The people had no idea what is happening behind the scenes and have been eating this product because the company had hidden the truth from the people. In both movies, people are divided into different groups.
In Logan’s Run, everyone is separated by age. Kids wear yellow, young adults wear green, and people close to the age of thirty wear red. This keeps the people divided, however everyone lives a similar lifestyle. Everyone has the same apartments, no one has relationships, and people wear similar styles of clothing. In the second movie the population is divided by a caste system. Society is overpopulated so it is hard for people to find jobs, yet the upper class lives in nice huge apartments with new technology and unlimited food supply. When the detective visits the CEO’s apartment, he is astonished to see how big it is. There is also a distinction in the appearance of classes. The wealthier are clean and well groomed, such as Shirl the lady who lives with the CEO has nice colorful dresses and her hair is kept clean and combed. While the poor are dirty and wear old tattered clothes. Detective Thorn wears an old off colored beige jacket and his face is always sweaty and covered in dirt. If the two characters were to be seen together on the streets, it would be obvious to people which one was …show more content…
wealthier. Women are portrayed as weak and need to be dependent on men in both dystopias.
When Logan and Jessica escape the robot and are outside the city they start a fire and spend the night. While they sit by the fire Jessica needs Logan to hold her because she is scared of the dark. It shows that she is delicate and needs a man to keep her safe. Also, when Logan is looking at the painting of the president Jessica is taken by Francis, she does not fight for herself but instead calls for Logan to come save her. She is dependent on Logan to always keep her safe. In the other movie women are treated like furniture. They come with the apartment and can be used for anything. They are slaves for the men to use. When Shirl has her friends over at her apartment Charles, a man who works there, come in and starts hitting the women because they are slacking. Women are given no respect to in the movie. Both films show women as weak and unimportant, but Jessica unlike Shirl is treated like a
human. To sum up the big powers in both movies have a lot of control over society, they get away with hiding the truth from people, they divide people into different groups, and they treat women as inferiors. But people are separated by different methods and women have different opportunities in the movies. Dystopias portray an alternate universe where things go differently than expected. Logan’s Run and Soylent Green are good examples of dystopian films. They show people what life would be like if something catastrophic were to take place in the future.
Dystopias in literature and other media serve as impactful warnings about the state of our current life and the possible future. Two examples of this are in the book Fahrenheit 451 and the movie The Truman Show. Both works show the harmful effects of advancing technology and the antisocial tendencies of a growing society. The protagonists of these stories are very similar also. Guy Montag and Truman Burbank are the only observant people in societies where it is the norm to turn a blind eye to the evils surrounding them. Fahrenheit 451 and The Truman Show present like messages in very unlike universes while giving a thought-provoking glimpse into the future of humanity.
No matter how they are told or expressed, most dystopian stories have several similar assets. They are usually made to be unique, however there are usually numerous links between them. The book Brave New World and the film “The Island” are prime examples of this statement. A few similarities include the actions of hypnopaedia, forbidden love and affection, and un-natural births.
In both of these stories there are certain characteristics of females that are the same, they are inner strength, obedience, honor and respect, the good of the family is better than the good of the individual.
It is commonplace for individuals to envision a perfect world; a utopian reality in which the world is a paradise, with equality, happiness and ideal perfection. Unfortunately, we live in a dystopian society and our world today is far from perfection. John Savage, from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, V, from V for Vendetta by James McTeigue and Offred, from The Handmaid’s Tale by Margret Attwood, are all characters in a dystopian society. A dystopia is the vision of a society in which conditions of life are miserable and are characterized by oppression, corruption of government, and abridgement of human rights.
What is different from Dystopia then Modern-Day America? People think that Dystopia is all the same and everyone is the same. Modern-Day America is not all the sameness that is Dystopia. Like Dystopia in the Giver they did not do the same things as in the Modern-Day America as we do it normal. In Dystopia everything normal but, to us it seems too be weird if though it normal for them.
A dystopian text is a fictional society which must have reverberations of today’s world and society and has many elements and rules that authors use to convey their message or concern. Dystopian texts are systematically written as warnings use to convey a message about a future time that authors are concerned will come about if our ways as humans continue, such as in the short stories called The Lottery by Shirley Jackson and The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury. Dystopias are also written to put a satiric view on prevailing trends of society that are extrapolated in a ghoulish denouement, as in the case of the dystopian film Never Let Me Go directed by Mark Romanek. Dystopian texts use a variety of literary devices and filming techniques to convey their message, but in all three texts there is a main protagonist who questions the rules of society, and all citizens carry a fear of the outside world who adhere to homogenous rules of society.
In The Village, I have found that all six of the common patterns of dystopian literature are present. For clarification, dystopia is an imagined place or state in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or degraded society. It is the opposite of utopia which is an ideal place or state. The characteristics and patterns of dystopian literature are all shown in this movie. The movie shows, with help from the themes and characters in The Village, a town attempting to appear innocent to nature and humankind but failing. Or an attempt at a utopian society that turns to dystopia. The six themes of dystopian literature are as follows: First, an attempt at perfection. Second, rules and boundaries established to maintain the society’s
The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451 are both great examples of dystopian fiction. A dystopia is a fictional world that takes place in the future that is supposed to be perceived as a perfect society, but it’s actually the opposite. Other things that a dystopian society might display are citizens both living in a dehumanized state and feeling like they’re constantly watched by a higher power. Dystopias are places where society is backwards or unfair, and they are usually are controlled by the government, technology, or a particular religion. The Hunger Games and Fahrenheit 451 are both in the dystopian fiction genre because the societies within them show the traits of a dystopia. Both of them also have characters that go against the flow of the normal world.
A dystopian society is a degraded society and very little good is happening while a utopian society is a world of peace. Children of Men, directed by Alfonso Cuarón, is a dystopian society caused from the world being struck by infertility. In “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas”, by Ursula Le Guin, a child is kept in a basement to keep the utopian society the way it is. Children of Men and “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” could not be any more different although they share similarities as well. The stories are of utopian and dystopian societies and the actions that take place make the societies very similar.
Both stories show the characters inequality with their lives as women bound to a society that discriminates women. The two stories were composed in different time frames of the women’s rights movement; it reveals to the readers, that society was not quite there in the fair treatment towards the mothers, daughters, and wives of United States in either era. Inequality is the antagonist that both authors created for the characters. Those experiences might have helped that change in mankind to carve a path for true equality among men and women.
It is no secret that there is an obvious difference of how women are portrayed in the media versus men. This movie discussed female characters never having lead roles and stated that when they did it ended in the women depending on, loving, or having to have a man. One young high school girl said, “Women never play the protagonist. The girls are
Even though they differ in the sense that one only does it to maintain power and feels no remorse, while the other does it out of love and the guilt of it haunts her forever, they are still alike in the ways they use manipulation and deception of appearances as tools to get what they want. They demonstrate to the audience that women can be equally as powerful as men, and not only that, but can actually control them and drive them to their own destruction, if they so
Dystopian America What exactly is dystopia, and how is it relevant today? E.M. Forster’s The Machine Stops uses a dystopian society to show how one lives effortlessly, lacking knowledge of other places, in order to show that the world will never be perfect, even if it may seem so. A society whose citizens are kept ignorant and lazy, unknowing that they are being controlled, unfit to act if they did, all hidden under the guise of a perfect utopian haven, just as the one seen in The Machine Stops, could become a very real possibility. There is a rational concern about this happening in today’s world that is shared by many, and with good reason.
The novel Anthem by Ayn Rand and the movie The Hunger Games directed by Francis Lawrence and Gary Ross are popular among teens because they can relate to them by the high expectations put upon them. In a dystopian novel or movie, there is a dystopian protagonist. A dystopian protagonist is someone who often feels trapped, struggles to escape, questions existing systems, believes or feels as if something is wrong in the place they live in, and then helps the audience realize the effects of dystopian worlds. These are both good examples because it takes us on a walk through the protagonist's life and only then do we see what dystopian really is.
Dystopia is a term that defines a corrupt government that projects a false image. Thus, in a dystopian society, we have the belief and comfort that the society is proper to its followers. One good example of dystopian society is the Hunger Games. The terms that describe dystopia towards the Hunger Games are a “hierarchical society, fear of the outside world, penal system and a back story” (“Dystopia”). The Hunger Games that follows, the term that defines dystopian fiction.