Serogates
The Movie Serogates has a rather obvious worldview(WV) of hedonism. The main story of the movie is that over the course of many years technology advanced so that almost the entire world had these devises serogates or avatars in a sense. The idea was that with the serogates one could live life to the fullest without any harm, danger, or consequenses Feeling everything the serogates feel and see. All through the movie we see people going through life without ever leaving there homes. Many scenes protray people have fun at parties, drinking, have sex, and even "shocking" is a version of getting high off a jolt of electricity. All throughout you see the population going to work then going to a party, a night on the town. There was even a shop designed to change the appearence of ones serogate, to have the perfect body, with no effects of age, disease, or injury.
While the usefullness of the serogates was great the people who used them became sickly, pale, larthargic, and afraid of the outside world without their serogates. The people themselves were in a way dying.
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Isn't the movie critiquing the notion of hedonism then? if nothing good comes out of the surrogates, then why make that point?
ReplyDeleteI'm guessing he means that the movie deals with the concept of hedonism, not that it necessarily supports it. I would agree that the movie ultimately critiques that notion. Still, I'm sure there are some (few though they may be) that would maintain that, as long as the surrogate "system" continues to work properly, the fact that the people were becoming sickly and afraid of the outside world is of little consequence in the long run.
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