USA - Junior
05-24-2005, 06:07 PM
I saw the movie BNW last night, after reading 1984 for English class, and then came online to look up some book stuff on BNW and ended up reading the book on this web site. I started the movie after the first thirty minutes and the next hour of the movie had the affect of making the reality that was presented in BNW seem very attractive, though the end of the movie points to the downfalls of the society, and why it is most deffinatly a dystopia rather than a utopia. I find that our instincts draw us to the infantilism of BNW, but a love for higher arts in most of us draw us from seeking perfection in isolation from individualism. <br>"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin." (Brave New World)<br>I agree.<br><br>P.S. Think about heaven as a Utopia... is that really what we want? Is that really a heaven at all? What is Heaven then? The song lyrics "We'll Make Heaven A Place on Earth" seem to refer to a Utopian Paradise... but that leaves us searching for simple happiness rather than intellectual stimulation, and real passion... I want sin?