Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Brave New World part II
Reading "Brave New World" had me thinking about movies I've watched recently that had the same themes. The story, set in this seemingly utopian world where everyone is seemingly happy. I watched Aeon Flux not too long ago, it's about a post-apocoplayptic world that's perfect. Except that it isn't. The people are under a military dictatorship, humans are being reborn over and over using cloning by the government in secret, and people are starting to remeber their past lives. In Aeon's world, people literally live forever because they are being recloned after they die. I think this is similar to Brave New World because not only are the people maufactured they are opressed by some central authority.But while people in Aeon Flux have liberties like getting married and choosing their profession the BNW citizens don't have that option. They've been brainwashed or conditioned into thinknig that their lifestyle was predestined and that everyone belongs to everyone.The movie and the book are set in dystopias, in societies that are perfect but once you scratch the sufrface you see flaws.I think why the film makers chose to make Aeon Flux a dystopian society was to show what could happen in the future if reproduction is gone. In an effort to maintain the human race what lengths will people go to? And if immortality was possible would people take it even though it harms others (such as the rulers in the film's world)?
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ReplyDeleteI honestly agree with your argument. Everything in content has it's own flaws. No matter the way their created, there is always a certain problematic issue. You really gave a good point of how humanity thinks beyond the extraordinary and to achieve the impossibles. In additional, the movie you have watched has a better society of having equality and freedom, but the point of cloning humans is insanity. It is like the ability to mask what amazing attributes that beholds the society. No one is more intelligent than the others. All but same.
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