Post Class 10/29

Monday's class I definitely left feeling I had a better grasp on a lot of Jameson’s Ideas and concepts. A quote I really thought was interesting was “The underside of culture is blood, torture, death and horror” I think this quote is really talking about what isn’t seen in our pop culture, the part of culture that is unpopular. This part is the homelessness, the areas and neighborhoods that are stricken with poverty. Our culture doesn’t like to display its underside it would rather stress the horrors of other nation and febreeze the homeless [metaphorically] over here. I also see in some Hollywood filmmakers projecting or prophesizing this cultural underside in the future. I feel like some of these movies are stressing this divide between the haves and have nots. For example in the movie Cloud Atlas (Which EVERYONE should go see) the city in the future had new technologies and looked to be like a typical futuristic city, lights, lasers, robots and everything is seemingly metallic. But this city was actually suspended in the air and under this city; there was a poverty stricken city, a literal underside to culture. This is the same in the movie Total Recall (2012). I think Hollywood’s take on the future is almost always frightening luckily in the Back to the Future (1985) the projected 2010 future was wrong, so I’m not too worried about these new “prophecies”