Week 1 - Fastfood Nation

We watched a film called Fastfood Nation directed by Richard Linklater for contexual studies.
The film provides very realistic views of lives of people from different backgrounds, which alot of the students found dull. I too, was alittle bored by the too true 'everyday life' story, but i am also touched by the truthfulness. As the title suggests, the film deals with the lives of people working in the business of Mickeys (a fastfood brand very much like McDonalds), but from different perspectives in the different job areas. The movie is giving quite an unti-fastfood messege, by the negative connotation of the mood of the film. As seen in the film how animals as well as the immigrant workers at the slaughter house are cruely treated and not look aftered. An research shown that most injuries to the workers in the slaughter houses goes unreported and most are sent back to their home countries after becoming crippled. Before watching the film we discussed that the film have an 'fracture' connotation contained within. As the machines are taking over the modern world, people and their skills are needed less and less, mostly replaced by emotionless machines resulting that we are becoming more detached to reality more than ever. From seeing the film, the 'fracture' connotation do stand strongly and was presented by the character Rudy Martin. As he asked Don to open the gate for him, Don said 'you should get a clicker' Which shows how much human today depends their lives on machinery instead of what they are capable of doing themselves. However i personally feel that the there's another idea that contridicts the 'fraction' in society. As the film depicted just how closely neted that the society is. As seen in the movie, Sylvia was working at the same hotel that Don stayed on his business trip, such coincidence. However he'd never know the tragic lives like the kind this hotel maid and her husband leads, nor would he ever know that her husband works at the very slaughter house that provides the meat for Mikeys and the dark secrets that place hides. Though all from their different point of views, they are all working for the same company and discovering a same horrible truth. That is how corrupted the society is and they are all victims.