Pre Work Utopia/Dystopia

Pre-Work:
  • Show film/trailer clips from attached page of links (How are images used for symbolism?)
  • Take notes
Title of Film or Video:
Ways it showed a UTOPIA
Ways it showed DYSTOPIA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loTIzXAS7v4
The Truman Show 		His life was "perfect."
Everyday he had a routine and there was never any problems. everyone around him acted as cheery and happy as possible. 		Trumans life was a whole lie and he was being watched every second of his life, yet he had no idea. This concept is extremely eerie and freaky.
The utopia in the film led to the dystopia because no ones life is perfect, and over controlling situations never results in good. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_Ne5g5F-WY
the Wizard Of Oz 		The bright colors and fantasy like settings. Everyone was fearful of the wicked witch of the west and she controlled whether people would live in fear or happiness. 

Hunger Games
The way that Panam is divided into different districts seems very perfect and utopic. Everyone is responsible for something to be part of this "perfect society."District 12 is oppressed, poor, starving and terrorized by the government. they lack any type of freedom. 

what is utopia/dystopia? 

utopia is an imagined setting or state of something in which everything is PERFECT. Often dystopia is the result of a fail in utopia. Dystopia is also an imagined setting or state in which there is great suffering  or injustice. 

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