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Feed: Movie Analysis

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Because of the vast society we live in, people have to make choices which can affect their lives both socially and morally. The social choices can affect individuals and their perception on people and the world around them. These choices tend to be based on the way an individual has formed in society. Moral choices tend to affect the individual and the people close to them as it can affect the way they respond to different aspects of society such a caring for others. In the MT Anderson novel ‘Feed’, the protagonist Titus has to make both social and moral choices to advance and respond to people. Another text which demonstrates people making social and moral choices is the Ben Stiller film ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ which depicts the …show more content…

Being that Titus has the feed installed in his brain, he finds it difficult to make decisions on his own and relies heavily for support. This is seen with First Person POV “the feed was doing this” shows the impact of the feed and how it controls ones identity and choices made. When Titus sees Violet suffering, he attempts to free the feed and help Violet stay alive and overcome the issues of the feed. However, because of the lack of knowledge without the feed and its power, Titus deletes Violets memories and thus loses her as a friend. This is seen through Violet’s colloquial first point of view “You are such a shithead”. The reader then notices the impact Titus’ social choices have had on the society he is part of and other individuals around …show more content…

Titus tends to put himself first and be disrespectful to others and their needs. Violet believed this was because of his rich nature as seen with “a present from mummy and daddy” which demonstrates the extensive resources to help Titus make moral choices. The audience then sees that Violet and Titus have a different view on society, thus making it difficult to make the same and correct moral choices. A moral choice made by Titus was seen by an intertextual quote of “intercrucial or oral, aint a choice of moral”. The quote could be foreshadowing the intensive moral choices Titus will have to make when with the feed. As a result, the reader then waits for a moral choice to be made by Titus and this choice will be based on the way he was brought up in

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