Post Apocalyptic Film Analysis

Words: 2672
Pages: 11
Open Document
Post apocalyptic cinema hides many messages and ideas relating to today’s society and how the directors of shows and films portray the world we live in. The messages that are going to be within this essay is the idea of community and positive values of human nature are ideas that are focused on more in Hollywood. These ideas are shown in the films, “The road” and “The Book of Eli” and the TV series, “The Walking Dead” and “The 100”.

The idea of ‘community’ is central to our future success according to post apocalyptic cinema.

When thrown into a post apocalyptic environment there are many different groups of people that are formed; they help each other gather resources and survive together in small distinctive communities. When faced with …show more content…
One of the most important and crucial things for a community to survive is food and rationing. As the supply is low in a post apocalyptic world. Important scenes of Rick and his tight group of leaders (Daryl, Carol, Michonne and Carl) that help run the community deciding of a good layout for seeding and planting food are key messages from the directors. Quickly applying structure to the community and giving everyone specific jobs is a fast track way for growing and prospering as a group. A similar scene is placed in season 3 of “The 100”. Chancellor Pyke, the new elected leader of the Sky Crew has his chosen few (Bellamy, Monty and Hannah) help him decide on the best place for farms for planting. Scenes within both shows that are shown to us multiple times are placing members of the community in different jobs and roles. These scenes generally give a good overview at how a community is meant to be handled and what depth of jobs are needed. Such as certain people rotating on lookout; going out and searching for supplies; stocking the medical bay; prepping food and rationing. Some of the things that make a community grow and come together are the small things. Within season 6 episode 12 of “The Walking Dead”, Carol makes cookies for everyone in the town with the limited supply of food. …show more content…
With post apocalyptic shows becoming more popular, we’re getting throw a whole bunch of survival situations and how to deal with them. Within the last 10 years of life growing up, kids are being targeted and taught how to survive by themselves in the wild. This is done through many different schooling trips, TV shows which catch our attention as we will be intrigued and pick up these many skills through doing something we like. When a community is deprived of technology is when we will need to use these survival skills to help us along, as we will need to go back to the “old ways” of doing things. This will allow us to rebuild communities with a significant amount of resistance towards relying on technology. As said in Sherry Turkle’s “Connected, but alone?”, the people of today are depriving themselves of face to face conversations as technology has become their ‘Safe Haven’. This is seen in the shows through many ways, such as the zombies in “The Walking Dead” representing today’s society and how were selfish and alienated by technology. And in “The 100” through the significance of working together as a community(s). These messages are directed towards us now as it could quite possibly be a near future for the
Show More

Related Documents: Post Apocalyptic Film Analysis

Octavia E. Butler's Parable Of The Sower

form of prediction or theorization of what will happen during the end or even after the end. In the modern day we see this in written literature, often called post-apocalyptic stories that express either a utopic or dystopic ending. I would like to focus on dystopian endings, dystopia most literally means in Greek ‘bad place’. These apocalyptic stories often incorporate real world issues taken to an extreme, leaving the author a stage to explain human nature at its raw self in a collapsed and desperate…

Words 1787 - Pages 8

Media/Situational Analysis Blade Runner Essay

Media/Situational Analysis 1. Full Citation of media segment: Blade Runner. 1982. Directed by: Ridley Scott Writing credits: Hampton Fancher David Webb Peoples (screenplay) Philip K. Dick (based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” 2. What aspects of this media segment or situation brought you to consider it for analysis? What makes this interesting or problematic from a sociological perspective? The film immediately places…

Words 1210 - Pages 5

Archetypes In Snowpiercer

in Bong Joon-hos film, Snowpiercer using Pierre Bourdieus theory of habitus, Harvey Whitehouse’s theory of memory, Carl Jung’s concept of archetype and Arnold van Gennep’s rites of passage model. This analysis will show that a key message portrayed in the film, is that is crucial to realize the flaws in regulated human ideologies of order, and to understand the importance of maintaining social balance in a system and how easily it can be disrupted. Through the course of the film, it’s evident that…

Words 1672 - Pages 7

Ecofeminest Perspective In Blade Runner

Research 2014 The future nior cult classic film “Blade Runner” -The Directors Cut can be interpreted through a variety of critical lenses including the Ecofeminest lens and the Marxist lens. In order to perceptively develop my own critical understanding of the film I decided to investigate the following hypothesis: “Blade Runner-DC is a film that conveys how a capitalist society negatively influences the relations of humans and nature.” To aid me in my investigation of my hypothesis I selected two…

Words 2749 - Pages 11

Zombie 2 Essay

have studied thus far in the movies we watched in this class. As you can see from some of our discussions and readings there may be a message that many viewers agree on, I will later discuss some of the implicit messages in two of the George Romero films we watched early in the semester to further strengthen my point. Nevertheless, for now I would like to continue explaining the implicit messages, which are crucial to my earlier questions. The director or writer can control implicit messages but in…

Words 3045 - Pages 13

Essay on In My Dreams Your Blowin Me... Some Kisses

Teaching the Monster: Frankenstein and Critical Thinking Melissa Bloom Bissonette Melissa Bloom Bissonette is an assistant professor at St. John Fisher College in Rochester, New York. She writes on the culture, politics, and personalities of early eighteenth-century London theater. T he student’s presentation posed the question “Who has the right to create life, God or Science?” Her Power Point displayed images of Boris Karloff, a Petri dish, and an unattributed painting of Adam…

Words 6678 - Pages 27

Department of English Spring 2014 Course Descriptions Essays

American fiction, non-fiction, and film. We will investigate how attitudes toward war have evolved throughout American history: our timeline begins with the Civil War—the traumatic event that birthed the modern American state—and ends with the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. In particular, we will attend to the ethics of representation, asking who is assigned the roles of hero, villain, and victim in the works we study, and why the writers and film directors have made the choices they…

Words 9501 - Pages 39