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I agree that the film, Idiocracy, is not only a parody but becoming increasingly prophetic because the film clearly predicts what is going to happen in the future. In the beginning of the film, army decides to do a new mission called Human Hibernation and they forget about that mission when the head official gets arrested. We can see the same situation in today’s world. Our government is using their citizens by influencing them to support them even the path is wrong. For example, Trump increased racism and now there are white nationalists who are protesting against the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville Virginia. With the passage of time, technology is replacing people. People are more dependable on technology even for the easiest …show more content…
In the film, there is a garbage mountain that destroys the city, changes an environment, and the land can’t hold plentiful trash but people still don’t care about it and keep doing what they want to. In New York city, we can see people littering on subway stations, streets even though they have the garbage cans near them because they think that it’s not their responsibility. If this kept happening and people don’t change their perception towards making their surroundings dirty then that day is not far when our tourist state, New York, will be famous for the dirt, and garbage. When Joe and Rita wake up after 500 years of hibernation, they see how language, environment, values, manners, etiquettes changed in the society. It teaches us that we should pass our manners, values, beliefs to our next generation and also teach them how to take care of our surroundings. The best time to do anything is now, so if we are not cautious about our nature, culture, so our future generations will face worst situations. It is right that they will have the technology but they won’t have an intelligence to use the scientific
There is a direct link in Book I and Book IV of the Once and Future King from the animation and adventure that Wart experiences to the fall of King Arthur’s reign. The shift is long and detailed but in the end everything ties together. Although at points the plot is grim, White throws in a little bit of satire throughout every book, for example in Book II when the Orkney environment is harsh but then it is contradicted by the behavior of Sir Pellinore, Sir Grummore, and Sir Palomides. In Book III, it is very descriptive and tedious with a darker tone, but then also is offset by Lancelot’s adventures. It is evident that the tone changes drastically from Book I to Book IV but what I noticed, is that the same themes and ideas are expressed within these two books.
Dr. Strangelove is a 1964 black comedy satire film about nuclear war between the USSR and the USA. It has received many awards including #26 on the American Film Institute’s top 100 movies list and a 99% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film begins with General Jack D. Ripper putting his base on high alert and ordering his bomber wing to preemptively drop nuclear bombs onto the Soviet Union. His second in command, Mandrake, tries to stop him after finding out the Pentagon ordered nothing and finds out that Ripper is insane in thinking the Soviets are trying to poison the American water supply. The Pentagon finds out and tries to stop it but they could not find the three digit code in time to stop the planes. General Turgidson recommends
Kurt Vonnegut said in The Vonnegut Statement (1973), in an interview with Robert Scholes, that one of his reasons for writing is "to poison minds with humanity…to encourage them to make a better world" (107). This idea works quite well in Vonnegut's book, Cat's Cradle. It is a satirical story of a man's quest to write a book about the day the world ended (refering to the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima), which he never finishes. What we get is a raw look at humans trying desperately to find a sense of purpose in their lives through different means such as religion, science, etc.
Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut is a satire on the state of world affairs in the 1960's. Vonnegut made a commentary in this book on the tendency of humans to be warlike, belligerent, and shortsighted. The main character of the book, the narrator, is certainly not a protagonist, although the modern reader craves a hero in every story and the narrator in this one is the most likely candidate. Through the narrator's eyes, Vonnegut created a story of black humor ending in the destruction of the earth.
Stanley Kubrick’s sexual parody, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, illustrates an unfathomed nuclear catastrophe. Released in the midst of the Cold War, this 1964 film satirizes the heightened tensions between America and Russia. Many sexual insinuations are implemented to ridicule the serious issue of a global nuclear holocaust, in an effort to countervail the terror that plagued America at that time. Organizing principles, such as Kubrick’s blunt political attitudes about the absurdity of war and the satirical genre, are echoed by the film style of his anti-war black comedy, Dr. Strangelove.
Satire is a technique used in literature to criticize the faults of society. An excellent examle of contemporary satire is Kurt Vonnegut's novel God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater. The author tells the life of Eliot Rosewater, a young and affluent man troubled by the plights of the poor. Eliot is the President of the Rosewater Foundation, a sum of money worth approximately $87 million. Using this position, he does everything he can to help the poor. This charity giving is socially unacceptable to the wealthy, particularly Eliot's father Senator Lister Ames Rosewater. Vonnegut uses caricature, irony, and tone to satirize the lack of care the rich have for those socially "beneath them."
The setting of the movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie, the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past, whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced, and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened to the humans from happening to the apes. Orangutans, such as Zaius went to great work as destroying the cave where the evidence of the humans reigned is revealed and removing Landen’s memory. In the book civilization of humans on Earth is equal to and may even surpass the civilization of the apes on Sorror. The point of view in the book is through Ulysees’ mind. He is clam and patient. Taylor in the movie is an impatient angry man who is never satisfied and is outraged by the fact that apes are running the planet and have locked him up. In the movie Taylor is a misanthrope who is hot-tempered and not respectful to the apes. He calls them "Bloody Baboons!" Taylor left Earth to find a better place and ended up where he started. In the book, Ulysee is kind and respectful towards the apes, and he was granted citizenship to their civilization and begins to assign apes human features. Ulysee was granted citizenship because of the speech he made before them. He gave that speech with respect and loyalty towards the apes for acceptance. The tones in the boo...
Kurt Vonnegut uses a combination of dark humor and irony in Slaughterhouse-Five. As a result, the novel enables the reader to realize the horrors of war while simultaneously laughing at some of the absurd situations it can generate. Mostly, Vonnegut wants the reader to recognize the fact that one has to accept things as they happen because no one can change the inevitable.
Idiocracy, released in 2006 (“Idiocracy (2006)”) is a little-known comedy directed by Mike Judge. This film was chosen for the second film analysis because while the movie is quite crude, it is quite evident that the movie is trying to get across to its audience a deeper meaning. This deeper meaning is shown through the opposing methods of using and understanding communication displayed throughout the entire movie. The ability to see the bigger point in Idiocracy allows for good discussion of the methods of communication. The concepts that will be used to analyze Idiocracy are uncritical thinkers, cocultures, and uncertainty avoidance. The first topic that will be analyzed is coculture, coculture is simply how a generation shapes the individual,
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At the beginning of the movie, it reviles that there is nothing on earth but mountains of compacted trash and that there seems to be no sight of human life. The earth appears to be fairly empty of life except for Wall-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) whose main purpose to be there is to compact the trash and pile it up to make more room. Although the earth seems pretty empty and boring, it does not stop
Even though Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb screened in the midst of the sobering Cold War, critics were keen on praising the film for its mastery of humor applied to such a sensitive matter. The film is exceedingly loaded with metaphors, innuendos, and allusions that nothing can be left undissected or taken for face value; the resulting effect is understood to be part of Kubrick’s multifarious theme. Kubrick has stated that what began as a “the basis for a serious film about accidental war ” eventually birthed an absurd and farcical classic comedy. The director fuses together irony, satire, and black humor to create a waggish piece but most of all the situation of the times and its gravity is the essence of what the audience finds so hilarious . Using caricatures rather than characters, exaggerated script, and sexual undertones, Kubrick manifests to the audience their own predicament and just how ridiculous it is to even consider brinksmanship as a means to preserve the American lifestyle.
The video “No Time for Ugliness” describes the need for more nature and greenery in cities due to the fact that industrial changes (such as parking lots, billboards, etc.) are “visually unappealing”. Along with various aspects such as signs being visually unappealing, the video discusses how slums are as well—saying that the solution is to build lower income housing that still “fits the needs” of the lower class population and those who would be displaced by the “progressive” changes while being visually appealing to others. The narrator, who paints himself as an all-knowing figure, ends the video by blaming the government and laws for the incorrect planning of cities and states that the only way to properly design urban spaces in a visually
This is being seen today, especially in third world countries. Even though the novel, Brave New World, was written quite some time ago, Huxley still makes points that are relevant today. By using satire, he warns us on issues such as science, technology and religion. We should slow down our use of science and technology, especially when using them for abusive purposes. We also need to be careful about letting the government get too involved in aspects of our everyday lives.
Humans are being too lazy because instead of putting our garbage in the garbage can, people would rather just litter and throw our stuff on the ground. Even though the garbage can is really close by, folks would just drop their garbage on the ground instead of putting into the trash can. Humans are being way too lazy and if keep doing this, our world as we know it will never be clean again. It will be full of trash. Also, humans just throw their garbage into the ocean thinking it’s a place where they can put garbage. Well no, living creatures and animals live in the ocean. But knowing the world, a lot of us are being way too lazy that a lot of humans have to throw their garbage into the ocean. Research has shown that by 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. That totally explains many humans are being too lazy. A lot of common citizens keep throwing the plastic bottles and plastic into the ocean so that theory may be true. To conclude this paragraph, humankind are acting too lazy and we need to change