The End of August at the Hotel Ozone

The End of August at the Hotel Ozone

Posted by hmarvin on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 04:41

I have been re-examinging some of the notions of this film in my head since having watched it nearly a week ago.

I realize more and more some of what truely irked me about this film.  One of the biggest things I objected to is the lack of close friendish, familial, or sexual contact between the girls.  The women were not human in this tale, hey were cold and distant and inhuman like animals.  One simple way to explain why the women behaved the way they did in this film is to say that with out men, those women could never be fully human.  You can be charitable and also say men also aren't fully human with out women.

Fahrenheit 451

The women in the movie were without society or customs.  I don't agree with the idea that they behaved the way they did because they were missing a half of themselves.

The movie reminded me of Fahrenheit 451 in that way.  When people are without any kind of self-inhibition, they behave like animals.  The entertainment show in the movie (throwing grenades at fish and dropping machine gun rounds in a fire) was strikingly similar to the entertainment of Fahrenheit (fireworks, colors, flying [!]).  Ozone shows us a world after comfort, and Fahrenheit shows a world ruled by comfort, but both worlds produce the same animal-like ends in their inhabitants. 

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Dan
dblondel@hunter.cuny.edu

Posted by dblondell on Tue, 03/04/2008 - 05:46