Blade Runner

1. Blade Runner is best known for its cyberpunk mise en scene (design aspects of the film): the incredibly dense texture of its shots. Watch very carefully and describe the 2020 culture the movie suggests visually.
Some 2020 culture I saw in the movie was that it seemed very dark and gloomy; it seemed to me like it was raining almost the entire movie. I cannot remember one scene where it looked sunny and happy place to be. From the visual the director portrays in the movie, it did not look very appealing. I guess the director was looking to portray 2020 as a dark time, very different from what we would see in Los Angles today.

3. Pulling in our current topics of Order and Chaos “The Self Among Others” what kind of economy does the 2020 world live in? Give examples of imagery or quotes to support your opinion.
The economy in 2020 was kind of confusing to me; there was all this new technology and the fancy buildings and architecture but the streets to me looked like dirty and gross like they did not keep up with the maintenance such as garbage disposal and keeping the streets clean. So to me I think the economy was good but they used the money in the wrong ways.

Burial at Thebes lecture

In attending Professor Lemak's lecture I learned a great amount information on ancient Greece. I also enjoyed how he grabbed our attention by talking about him self and music at first. I was shocked in listening that there was lottery to pick who would lead the city-state. I would not want a random person to run my city-state, that just seems very odd to me. How do we balance social justice with moral authority, or just with unjust laws? In the Burial at Thebes we see Antigone going against justice for her brother by giving him a proper burial and Creon was the authority that she was also going against. I think what Antigone did was morally right even though she went against authority, I would a member of my own family to get a proper burial.
Leadership is something that is very important to have. A leader should set good examples for the people around them. An example of leadership that comes to mind is a captain of a team. We just had a long talk about this at practice, a coach is a leader of the team but the coach cannot always talk about the good and bad about certain situations. Thats why we have captains, to help with the leadership role. Coach can tell us what is wrong and what looked bad and what looked good but in the end we need our captains to bring up our spirits and tell us what we need to do as a team to improve. Leaders face many issue and sometimes they can be very hard to come up with a way to fix it. King Creon had a though decision to make as a leader. He thought he was making the morally correct choice by deciding not to bury Polynices. In the end it made people upset, it is very hard to please everyone when you are a leader, someone will always disagree with your decision.