Film Flashcards
Matrix quote slave
‘You are a slave…born into a prison for your mind’
Matrix quote - whole
‘You have a problem with authority mr Anderson, you believe you are special…you are just part of a whole.’
Matrix
Wachowski 1999
Zombies representing
- representing a ‘new form’ of capitalism, harder to escape from
- need to leave the cities to escape
World War Z
Forster 2013
Introduction to WWZ
- intro is about climate change
- ‘they think it’s all going to go away, they live in a fantasy…’
- only when they leave the city that they are safe
Bartlett and Byers 2003
- Matrix gives the illusion of freedom of choice
Clarke 1997
Cinema is used as a vehicle to realise critique and project urbanises and hold them up to scrutiny
Miller 2007
- WWZ mosterising the displaced
May 2010
Zombies represent the other
They are just proxies
They are in every city = the extent of discrimination
Cain 2016
The system assures us we are free because we’re not bein dictated on or abused.
But we can’t live without money
Oppresse by the capitalist system (matrix)
Knight 2012
- zombie capitalism
* obsession with the undead reflects the reality of the state…economic stagnation and institutional decay