Blockbuster Movies: Entertainment and Indoctrination
I think blockbuster movies
serve, primarily, to familiarize the audiences with some ideas which the
powerful are fond of. Of course those movies are intended to make money, and
shaping mentalities is a way of doubling the revenues on the long term, since
you get a population increasingly obedient and imitative.
Now I should mention some
examples so the idea can be discussed. Regretfully I don't keep a record of my
thoughts while watching movies.
Zootopia |
What I mean is not the common
indoctrination inherent to the entertainment: Zootopia, for example,
defends the utopia of supressing the biology (prey/predator), and melting all
the races and characters in a unique mold of cute, unagressive people;
and that isn't gonna be possible but under the hegemony of one dominant way of
life (the American). No; I'm not talking about that kind of indoctrination.
I'm speaking here of a specific
discourse, very coherent and articulate, put in a dialogue sequence of an
action movie. That discourse, if taken from the fictional context and
pronounced openly by some politician, could be outraging, but not when it's
preceded and followed by frenetic stunts and persecutions.
Jason Bourne |
In the latest Jason Bourne
movie, it’s revealed that the CIA funded a massive social media app (like
facebook) and, not having enough with meta-data the founder is regularly and
secretly handing them, they want a “backdoor” into the platform; the point is:
we, the social media customers, are being sold out. And we’re told that so we
assume it and stop reivindicating freedom and privacy when the “terror” threat
is getting sophisticated.
Assassins Creed |
In Assassin’s Creed (the
movie), some powerful organization is working on erradicating the violence as a
human behavior, which means that facing police brutality and standing up for
rights is criminalized. In their ideal society there’s only conformity.
So be watchful. Blockbusters
reach a global audience, and they’re perfect to transmit ideology.
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