Sunday, July 10, 2011

Poem Heelllpppp!!!!!?

Typically, underground movements in literature and film, as well as in history, have spurred oppressed masses to revolt and defend themselves. Almost all portrayals of dystopian futures have an underground element, some method of escape from the otherwise inescapable fate we must suffer. Underground movements serve just this escapist purpose in Brazil, Delicatessen, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49. Brazil provides hope in the form of the renegade repairmen led by Tuttle, Delicatessen has the bumbling vegetarian Troglodists, and Lot 49 has its mysterious conspiracy, the Tristero. Given, such movements do not always represent the epitome of social perfection, but underground movements, be they foreboding, incompetent, or somewhere in between, function as proof of humanity in an otherwise cold and depressing world.

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