S94kn 2020

Reading it, I enjoyed The Lottery quite a bit, but I’d be lying if I said it didn’t remind me of the 2012 dystopia movies I was invested in to an embarrassing degree as a tween; Female protagonist (albeit older than the twenty-something-year-old Hollywood average and married with children) who ~rebels~ against the inhumane living conditions the rest of society seems to be fine living under for some reason. Ceremonies to decide who amongst the laypeople crowd will be sacrificed/exiled/etc. Civil unrest directed initially in-group instead of towards the government/power controlling said inhumane conditions. It’s a stretch, but I kind of feel like it works. So were I tasked with adapting this story into a film, there are some aspects of the early 2010’s tried-and-true YA movie formula I’d have to follow: First off, the role of Tessie Hutchinson would have to go to Shailene Woodley. Now, I’ve never left a screening of a Shailene Woodley film and thought, “Wow, Shailene Woodley is a good

Though the main characters of the short story are children, it’s easily inferred that Barbie-Q takes place in a profit-driven society much like our own. The narrator and her friend treat the barbie dolls as representations of the affluent lifestyle they strive towards; the dolls wear elegant, “Jackie Kennedy”-esque outfits of “satin splendor” and work in such lavish professions as lounge singing. The children themselves presumably come from a lower to lower-middle-class background, given that they can’t afford most of their barbies until they go on sale for being damaged, and it would seem that they’ve been conditioned to associate wealth with self-fulfillment, as is often the case in societies run by capitalism. They treat these dolls as the representation of everything life could be, burying their hopes and aspirations within them. The reverence for these dolls reminded me of one aspect of our own culture, celebrity worship. They represent for us what the Barbie dolls represent to t