Film Discussion Entry and Film Analysis Entry 3

The Handmaid's Tail

The Handmaid’s Tail was a dystopian film set on the issue of women rights and can easily be identified as a feminist movie.This film is portrayed as an extreme version of an paternal society with its mistreatment of women. These women are each identified only by the color of their clothing, each possessing a different role dependent upon which color their 'class' represents. In this dystopia, women are extremely infertile. Due to the pollution and and disease, only 1 in 100 women are fertile and healthy enough to have children. As a result, these fertile women are extremely important, since they are the ony hope for humanity to continue surviving. 
This important fact is enough reason to fear a possible dystopia. If this few of women are fertile enough to even bear children, those few in money and power will want them in order to have children, if they themselves are infertile. This will only allow for a greater societal gap, as those who are pregnant and have children are praised, while infertile and older poorer women are ignored and deemed useless.
Unfortunately, once it is discovered that a women is fertile, they are forced to comply with those who are of higher religion power. These women are brainwashed and medicated into believing that it is natural for them to be raped by the husbands of their maid in order to give her a son. This society oppresses these women into believing only a unified thought. That their role is only to serve those above them by providing them with children.
Most importantly, religion has been stressed throughout the film, as it plays a large role in shaping this society. It is evident that they used the Old Testament to rectify their actions. They had reffered to many times where hand maidens also played the same role. This dystopia twists its religion teachings to degrade these women, and reduce them down to mere objects. They enforce religious values with an emphasis placed on the importance of fertility and procreating. By doing so, rape is blamed on the victim, fornication without the intent to procreate is extremely forbidden, and magazines are burned so women do not get distracted by their purpose. 

The only people that are truly free are those that have been able to escape by crossing the border of the Republic of Gilead. As long as you are a woman in this society you are captured and reduced to having no rights and only the illusion of freedom.

 Fight Club

One of the biggest defining traits of this film was the implication and importance of consumerism to maintain our currently society. The American economy purely runs on consumer purchases and wishes to maintain their status by keeping up with the Jones. These people feel that in order to be truly happy, that they must spend money that they don't have, to impress the people around them by having the bigger yard, the nicer car, or the cooler clothes. It is this unnecessary ideology that by working extremely hard to buy expensive things, that we will receive the satisfaction we need to be truly happy. Instead this forces humans to only become distant, and reduce themselves down to artificial interactions since they only feel that their possessions are important. This is what had evolved into the chaos that Tyler Durden wanted to cause with the help of Project Mayhem. By destroying the credit card agency buildings everyone's credit would reset and allow financial freedom for everybody. Understandably, it would both cause chaos as well as a utopia. By providing financial freedom to many people, it allows them to recreate themselves and reset their financial lives.

They would be able to have the freedom to live a life that won’t be ruled by the possessions that they own. They can choose to move to a different location, and even learn from their previous financial mistakes. This way, they have properly learned from them and will allow this population to have a second chance at a new life.

Interestingly, this film depicts this contemporary society as the dystopia, not anywhere else but the here and now. It demonstrates that the current world that we live in is the dystopia and necessary to understand the destructiveness of our competitiveness for objects, and reducing our human interactions to only that.

This dehumanizes us, and will continuously change how we act with each other, and our things.

Totalitarian Technologies 

In Nineteen Eighty-Four, it was shown that with that nation’s stability, it provided mixed feelings for the population Some people were welcoming their governance  while others were often not sufficiently troubled enough to rebel. As a result, there are few unsatisfied remaining rebels in these societies while the majority of this society seems to be at least satisfied, and with the use of scientific training, has the ability to make governments voluntarily dissolve.This is due to the generations of education, and development that has allowed human nature to improve. It provides science with the ability to recreate people and provides social harmony as it allows for cooperation and efficiency.