Children Of Men : A Dystopian Film : Children Of Men

Throughout the film I began seeing America and its culture in a new light. I was able to see the things that Americans take for granted every single day, that other countries and people would worship. I was able to see American beliefs, traditions and practices through a different perspective. One practice that stood out to me was our use of technology and how dependent we are on technology. When the Lost Boys of Sudan came to America, they had never used electricity at all and it was hard for them to adjust to using it. This, I found was strange because technology has become second nature to Americans. We don’t have to even think about using it anymore. One tradition that stood out to me was how we as Americans, celebrate the Fourth of July.

One night, a very dark night, trouble was lurking in the shadows. You could just smell it in the air everywhere you go. It was like choking on a dark cloud filled with danger. Legend has it that it targets one person until they die. It fills them with dreadful thoughts, making them do bad deeds, and leading them to suicide. Today it chose to pick me...

In society reproduction is one of the most important things that keeps our world's population growing. In these three short dystopian stories there are different approaches on ideas on what reproduction should be like and how it should be approached. Reproduction rights have an immensely big impact on each of these stories in different circumstances but are very much alike. These three different stories have different rules for the way they run their reproduction systems in their communities. Ten with a Flag the way the society has to do with reproduction is by a ranking system. In this case the people in the story find out how great their child is by ranking, so if the child is a ten it's perfect and if the baby has a perfect ten with a flag, the flag means that the baby might have something troubled or wrong about its persona. Amaryllis is about keeping society to a minimum. Auspicious Eggs is about the Catholic Church and its involvement the reproductive system. All of these stories have harsh endings if an individual can't do something to meet society's specifications about reproduction rules.

Conversely, Kusserow, instead of using irony or literary images, she forms meaning in her poetry through the use of metaphors. As Tyson states, “ A metaphor is a comparison of two dissimilar objects in which the properties of one are ascribed to the other” (143). Kusserow uses several metaphors throughout her poem to help elucidate the effects of the Second Sudanese Civil Wars on the Lost Boys. Regarding the “Lost Boys”, the name given to the groups of over 20,000 boys of the Neur and Dinka ethnic groups who were displaced and orphaned during the Second Sudanese Civil War, Kusserow writes, “packs of bony Lost Boys / roving like hyenas towards Ethiopia, / tongues, big as toads, swelling in their mouths” (15-17). Here, Kusserow has used two zoomorphic metaphors, applying animal characteristics sot humans. She compares the Lost Boys to a hyena, a wild and chaotic animal, depicting the boys as a bunch of mad and violent scavengers, implying that they try to search for and collect anything that can be a source of food for them. Moreover, her comparison in which she describes the tongues of the Boys to be as big as toads, she is illustrating the extreme level of dehydration that the boy’s probable experienced, and how their tongues swell up since that is a symptom of dehydration. From Kusserow’s use of zoomorphic metaphors, we can see that she is trying to show how the Lost Boys have been dehumanized due to the dreadful condition they have had to face as a product of the Second

The modern world is in the midst of reconstructing gender roles; debates about contraception, reproductive freedom, and female inequality are contentious and common. The majority now challenges the long established assertion that women’s bodies are the eminent domain of patriarchal control. In the past, a woman’s inability to control her reproductive choices could come with ruinous consequences. Proponents of patriarchal control argue against reproductive independence with rhetoric from religious texts and with anecdotes of ‘better days,’ when women were subservient. Often, literature about childbearing fails to acknowledge the possibility of women being uninterested in fulfilling the role of motherhood.

Manhood is sometime characterized in The House on Mango Street and Bloodline Sandra Cisneros literally. In this book the author conveys that manhood is nothing but adult age, it is something we reach somehow by the time and Sandra Cisneros manages to show it by the notion of "hips” that constitutes for Esperanza, Nenny, Rachel and Lucy something that symbolize manhood. They all try to give the utility of hips that they see from the adult female and according to Rachel hips is for propping babies that is a role of a woman. Furthermore for Sandra Cisneros, this notion of hips enables her to show one of the sign of virility which is something for adults. The author of The house on Mango Street, without any complexity, she analyzes literally manhood

The documentary focuses on the downgrading and expectations of people in the world. I, as a person believe that men are not the only ones who downgrade women, other women do the same. It does not matter of someone’s gender, anyone will still put someone else down. It is the expectations society has placed. Something I have been thinking over for the past couple of days after I watched this film, was what is society really? It is an organized group of persons associated together for religious, cultural, scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes, in other words, the people.

This film points out very good points. We are a generation that only cares about things that happen in front of us and that somehow affect us, but I believe that every generation has been this way. When black people were discriminated is this country, the people who were directly affected by it were the one who fought for equality. Back when I lived in the Dominican Republic, I felt that I didn’t know anything about the world, I only knew what I was told by other people in my community. There was not a way to figure it out by myself because I didn’t have the technology at my hand on those times. The role of technology in my generation is essential because is knowledge, you can find anything you want with it. I think that knowledge is understanding

The review of this movie is based on sociological matters that are outshined in the film and touch on the lives of the individuals, their way of living, morals, behavior and cultural aspects. The film is set in a real society and concentrating much on social issues of the society more than the economic, technological and political status of this society based in New York.

The film Minority Report catalyzes a specific message through its usage of film effects and actors. Dystopian film is created through the film’s plot, often enforcing an over-arching method of government corruption and control through its setting, actors, and specific lighting. These key elements utilize the overall tone of the film, and it is the specific use of actors and technicality that ultimately set the film up for success. Minority Report exploits this usage of blocking and setting in order to create a successful dystopian film. In order for the movie’s plot be successful, a director must contemplate the usage of its actors and plot devices in order employ the usage of tone which ultimately make a movie effective in its overall delivery.

Bong Joon-ho demonstrates that failure to close the substantial gap between the tail-enders, who reside at the rear of the train, and the first class will result in the future prevalence of present issues. Bong Joon-ho was captivated by the idea of people fighting against each other rather than being equals on this Noah’s Ark-like contraption. He demonstrates a dystopian society, characterized by the highly stratified society, through lighting where the 99% who reside at the rear of the train, are shot using low-key lighting suggesting oppression and dehumanization as they are forced to live in squalid quarters, while the quick

Utopia and its derivative Dystopia, both focus on social and political structures within a society. However, the need for this Utopia is not revealed until desperate measures result in the conjuring of images of what the world could be rather than resolving issues encompassing the present society. P.D. James explores this notion through her futuristic-apocalyptic novel The Children of Men (1992) where under the tyrannical rule of the Warden of England, Xan Lyppiatt in 2021, the only issue revealed to society is the infertility of ‘homo sapiens’ and the inability to provide a future race. James stems this idea from a newspaper article, where it was stated that the human race is much less fertile now in comparison to the past (The Guardian, 2010).

When Making a film a director wants to draw the audiences emotions to the film to make them interested in what is going to happen. The director wants to make sure the audience is putting their emotions into a particular character or event. They can use this to give items importance and help us see who is an important character or if an event is serious or not. They basically tell us how to feel in a situation. They do this with the perspective/focus, lighting, and with the audio.

This is an agreed conception of film and human life, that man is a being with the possibilities of success or failure. We also see that Schatz’s way of thinking is how film and the settings of the culture are with in the film and what drives the film to its climax for the viewer, but at the end it does due what Schatz’s talks about with gangster films.

Artificial reproductive technology (ART) is defined as procedures which stimulate a woman 's ovaries to produce eggs, the eggs are then removed, combined with sperm, and then returned to a woman 's body (Bell, 2016). ART is becoming more and more popular throughout that globe. This method of conceiving children gives women who may be struggling with infertility options that were not possible before the advent of such methods. ART is relevant to the sociological definition of global health because it is evidence of the fact that our world has become interdependent especially when it comes to medical technology. However with ART comes the notion of the culture of disguise and in many countries this is an integral part of artificial reproductive technology process. With that being said, sociologists should look to study and understand the culture of disguise in ART as it pertains to global health and it shapes interactions between people and the society they live in.