Inspiration clouds

Making Again for 11/9/2021:

Just watched Train to Busan a movie that critiques capitalism.

Summary:

-This movie shows the selfishness and individualist attitude (interested in exploring this)

-See a little bit of glorification of work (in lines implying that you need to study hard and that the daughter will understand while he worked so hard and couldn't be with him)

-See the attitude that the only way you can fail at this capitalistic game is if you're lazy or stupid (the binary thinking in Capitalism I'm interested in exploring, winners or losers)

Notes:

Love of working, suggestion that failure can only come from not being smart or working hard “don’t flunk school or you’ll end up like him”

Idea that you must finish what you start and not really care about emotional feeling or what causes you not to finish

Idea that people shouldn’t protest or fight against the status quo that things would be different in the past “people riot over anything back in the old days they’d be re-educated

Government lies about pandemic, says just violent outbreak.

That idea of not working together when the daughter gave up the seat for a woman. He says she needs look out for herself.

Only thinking about yourself wanting to go to Busan alone the Dad days and a Train Car

Individualism

Selfishness

Wanting to leave the train with the people behind

Contrast with the pregnant woman’s husband who opens the door for the asshole dad who wants to bring people behind. Who tells the Dad to stick his head back in to take out some zombies and helps the jerk protagonist father get his kid back.

Working together in the fight. Character development?

Glorifying sacrifice or suffering —>she’ll understand why you worked so hard when you get older

Jerk guy CEO of something express embodiment capitalist ideology wanting to kick those others out fighting so hard to keep them out. He throws people into zombies as diversions sometimes unnecessarily. Always looking out for himself.

I also wanted to post what I’m showing for my Capstone 1 presentation tomorrow. It’s the animatic for the end of my animation. For context this is after my characters have started to mobilize the dragon (a.k.a capitalism) and then we see the dragon’s reaction. 

-lying saying their product could cure you of Covid 

Watched this and another video on multi level marketing which had a lot of interesting stuff about worker exploration and the other video had stuff about how mlms used tragedies like covid to make money.

John Oliver

-uses manipulative practices to make people buy into the idea that MLM‘s can change their  life (make the rich).

-false claim Herbalife helped overcome brain tumor

-Video about chicken industry, this video focuses on the workers, chicken farmers. 

-Pilgrims, Tyson, Sanderson Farms and Perdue dominate the chicken industry

-multiple studies show whose sole source of income is chicken farming live below or near the poverty line--> This is because of contract farming, they drop off the chickens then pick them up sometime later (97 percent of chickens are raised this way)

-the companies own the chickens(what makes money), and farmers own the property and the equipment(what costs money)

-these corporations also determine how those farmers take care of the chickens, one farmer talked about how the company he’s signed the contract with won’t let the chickens be outside instead preferring them sitting still inside. 

-companies also increase these farmers debt by making them buy new equipment constantly.

-farmers are also paid by a “gladiator tournament” ranking farmers in the same area against each other, those in the top half get a bonus those in the bottom half get a pay cut. 

-Every time farmers speak out these corporations retaliate by cutting pay, cutting the quality of chickens they get, cutting the amount of chickens they get. (number 1 is the best quality they have number 10 is the worst quality of chicken)

This was a really interesting source about worker exploitation, and the encouragement of toxic worker environments. This something I definitely want to incorporate into my story. 

These protective laws were written but they’re not be enforced, a rider has been inserted into the actual bill every year that forbids the usda from enforcing these rules