Summary Of The Film Feed By M. T. Anderson

Why are we attracted to dystopian stories about our future and not scared? According to Jean Card from U.S. News, “Technology is so advanced, it is almost magical . . . Right now, the U.S. government’s branches are broken . . . Information sources have become increasingly centralized and nationalized . . . Political correctness has expanded into a genuine threat to free speech.” So, does that mean we are becoming a dystopia, like the ones we read about? According to Wikipedia, a dystopia is described as a frightening and advanced society, that usually takes place in the future. In Feed, M.T. Anderson explores the disastrous and technology obsessed future that awaits us, where most people have a feed (a phone wired into their brains). In this
A short scene in the film shows Aurora telling Jim to not fix the ship, which would cause him to be burned alive by the giant engine and instead let everyone die, but quickly Jim responds that there are too many people to just let die and continues with his mission (Passengers). What is interesting is, Aurora would rather have thousands die including Jim and herself than just him but either way he would die. This scene proves how different people are in this dystopian society unlike Feed. In Feed nobody would care to even save thousands of people, they would think its “null,” but in passengers they would do whatever it takes. Consider the final scene from the film, 88 years later, the passengers are awaken from hibernation and see what Jim and Aurora grew, beautiful green trees and plants all over the inside of the ship, it is like a giant indoor natural garden but in space (Passengers). This final scene shows a hopeful future, where everyone lives happily ever after unlike in Feed where the world is ending, people are falling apart, and Violet does not live. This shows the two types of dystopian societies that can exist in the future, either a horrible, or happy