Traumatic Adolescences And Revolutionary Tendencies In Bryan Singer’s X-men (2000) In X-Men the stigmatising, marginalising powers of mutancy push mutants into two ideologically oppositional camps, one heroic (the X-Men) and the other villainous and anti-society (Magneto’s group) which come to represent good and evil in the film. The impending apocalypse in X-Men is brought about Continue Reading
Social Isolation and Jonas’ Rebellion in The Giver – Praveen Raman
“When people have the freedom to choose, they choose wrong” – Chief Elder While most young adult dystopian films have a clear distinction between what is good and evil from the start, The Giver (2014) directed by Phillip Noyce introduces a world which could be considered either utopian or dystopian depending on the Continue Reading
Survival versus Morality of Youths in the Presence of a Protector in the Hunger Games and The Road – Peng Yun Ting
Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games (2008) and Cormac Mccarthy’s The Road (2006) are both successful post-apocalyptics texts featuring young protagonists. They describe the development of youths’ morality within apocalypses. Analyses of the texts have largely surrounded ethical implications of choices characters must face. In an environment where their survival is constantly threatened, selfishness is the Continue Reading