The test is next week. I will send the vocabulary tonight.
It’s the same format as the midterm. I will do Inglourious
Basterds, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, American Beauty and Nosedive.
Nosedive is today’s movie. The genre is science fiction.
Nosedive is literally when the airplane is crashing nose
or head first. As a metaphor, it means our life is suddenly having a lot of
problems.
We also say “in a tailspin” using the airplane as a
metaphor for the same meaning.
This movie is about the negative influence social media
has on our lives. First, it is making us really superficial or shallow, because
it is based on how we look and saying silly things.
Because it has hurt or influenced people’s ability to
focus for a long time, nobody can read books anymore.
The sad thing is people really care about getting “likes”
or approval from other people on social media. But we cannot control how others
feel about us We can only control how we feel about ourselves. People feel safe
to say mean, cruel, unfriendly things on social media.
Pay attention to the clothes and homes. They are almost
always pastel and of a solid/plain pattern. This represents the shallow or
superficial personality we gain from using social media all the time.
That is what they call “famous” people on social media:
“influencers.”
The Court Jester: the King’s personal clown
Everyone must kiss the King’s butt and tell him how great
he is or get killed.
The only person that can tell the King the truth and much
B.S. (bulls*&^) he is would be the Court Jester
Psychological problem: in denial (when you don’t want to
see or think about the trut
h)
Lie and be fake to be successful.
Tell the truth to be a loser.
I’m still looking for “that.”
What is “that?”
Searching for meaning in life: existentialism.
No schlep is Yiddish, the old Jewish language, for b.s. or
nonsense.
What does under the bridge represent? Absolute low point
in existence in terms of comfort.
Under the Bridge. Two famous songs about this: Nirvana and
Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Why did she take her clothes off? Metaphor. She’s naked.
She’s not hiding.
The genre is science fiction. Whenever the story is set in
the future, it is science fiction. What the writers of science fiction often do
is show us how the world is going to be a terrible place later: This is called
a dystopia. It is a common theme in this genre.
