Art represent the human nature of the that time. The film “Next Floor” by Denis Villeneuve shows human nature and its effect to “polite” society through the formal dinner setting. The film starts with a dinner party where eleven guests in a contemporary dinner setting. The waiters serves platter after another and the guests continue to eat, caring less about other guests. Also with each plate, the rate of eating increases. As the dinner reaches its peak, a cranking sound heard and the whole floor falls beneath them. The Maitre D speaks into the microphone saying only two words: “next floor” and all the staff runs downstairs to reset the dinner. This continues and the guests keep on falling. Finally, the waitstaff and musicians standby waiting for the guests, but the guest keep falling floor after floor and the movie ends. “Next Floor” demonstrate the violence of “polite” society through the films portrayal of the food and guest behavior ultimately providing a critique of how we use seems like never exhausting natural resources.
“Next Floor” shows how “polite” society uses resources in a violent manner, through the depiction of food which seems like never runs out. The dinner represents “polite” society through guests clothing, environment of dinner with food and wine, and servers who dressed well. Waitstaff continuously serve platters after platters shows the never-ending food source. As the dinner continues the expression of bizarre food represents the violence. The brain shape oyster half represents human brain which symbolizes like so many humans were sacrificed for that food. The embryo shape meat represents the violence and devil nature of polite society as guest do not hesitate to eat that. Finally the heart fielded with t...
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... up to say for what is right.Villeneuve carefully chooses to represent the effect of violence surrounding on the non-violent people. As the violence continues more and more people joins violence than to stand out in the society.
“Next Floor” represents the “polite” society in which despite of the abundance of the natural resources the way society uses the natural resources is less appealing and violent in nature. The violence always prevails in those society though there is abundance of resources and these violence increases with the consumption of natural resources. The film send the message that “polite” society should consume the natural resources with less violent and mrs appealing way or else the whole world fall into the next level of misery to the deep down where nobody could help them.
Works Cited
Next Floor. Dir. Denis Villeneuve. Phi Center.2008.Film.
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the film shows. The critics said that too much blood and fights would incite a
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