Dystopia Control Notes Eye of the Beholder Corporate

Dystopia Control Notes + “Eye of the Beholder”

Corporate Control Corporate control: One or more large corporations control society through products, advertising, and/or the media. Examples include Minority Report and Running Man.

Technological Control • Technological control: Society is controlled by technology—through computers, robots, and/or scientific means. • Examples include The Matrix, The Terminator, and I, Robot.

Bureaucratic Control • Bureaucratic control: Society is controlled by a mindless bureaucracy through a tangle of red tape, relentless regulations, and incompetent government officials. • Examples in film include Brazil.

Philosophical / religious control Philosophical/religious control: Society is controlled by philosophical or religious ideology often enforced through a dictatorship or theocratic government. Theocracy: Theo : god Cracy: government

Utopia • An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The word was first used in the book Utopia (1516) by Sir Thomas More. • An unreachable society • UTOPIA (Greek) • Misconception of “Good Place” • U (ou) – no • Topia – place

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Eye of the Beholder: After Viewing Part I: 1. How do/did you predict the woman will look? 2. What are other predictions that you can make? 3. Describe the society that they are living in. How do you know this?

Eye of the Beholder After Viewing Questions: 1. What is the significance of the title? 2. What is the message of the video? 3. How does this video relate to the unit theme? 4. What type of society are they living in?

Eye of the Beholder • Describe the setting. (time , date , place) • What is the second option that the doctor suggests? • Predictions?