Over The hegde
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BE77igZczlI Trailer
Whilst in this lecture I was reminded of the film Over The hedge by dreamworks 2006. The lecture talked about how we as a society are becoming more and more obsessed by possessing, and this is a result of mass production and Capitalism.
The film is about a hungry animal RJ who trys to steal food from an angry bear but instead all the food is distroyed by a truck as a result of it all rollng down a hill in a trolley. The bear gives RJ a week to fill the trolley back up with all the food or else he will get eaten.
As RJ goes in search of food the first place he stops is a dangerous place where only humans are allowed, Over the hedge. As collecting all the food is too much work for him alone, he decides to pursuade other animals in the park to come with him, whilst lying to them about his real moto.
So they all go on search to find real food, the convient mass produced food we eat which doesnt grow naturally. This is where you see in the film how detached us as humans have become from nature and reality and instead how we are so greedy and over indulgent on things which create a false reality, this is due to Ideological control.
As a result of lying RJ losses all of his 'real' friends as he is found out.
To me this goes back to the idea that with Globalization someone always has a underlying moto which as a result they will benefit from it the most, and then turn on us when stuff like global warming takes place.
Lecture notes
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