RE: A truly beautiful animation
July 7, 2012 at 7:01 am
(July 6, 2012 at 5:22 pm)Speak Silence Wrote: As far as I can tell its showing us what our world is like, or going to end up like.
The poor/regular people think the only ticket to happiness is money and fame.
Before the ending with the tubes and stuff I thought the guy would just be killed and a fake would be put into the media. An effective way of giving the lowest of society hope that they can escape their horrible lives, thus preventing rebellion, while still keeping most of them stuck as they are.
That might be partly true as there was a fake of him created and while he didn't die he was kept as some sort of fuel source. That's the bit that confused me.
Was their entire society just a bunch of fakes stuck in an eternal loop using the defenceless as a means of energy and to keep the world stuck as it is? Securing their dominance for eternity?
Or maybe something else?
My thoughts get weird when I'm tired 
You're actually pretty close. The idea is that the White Class require the Black Class to survive...or to maintain their lifestyles, rather. They use the lottery to basically randomly choose those who they will leech dry. The "winner" DOES get to be something more...to the White Society. To them, the Black Society are "parasites" and the only good thing they could ever do is feed the White Society. Meanwhile the Prole who won the lottery technically did win something; companionship. He was too timid, too meek to seek out companionship on his own even though he had the opportunities, and ultimately, despite being blinded by the glitzy lifestyle of the upper class, all he truly wanted was to be with someone else...which in the end, he got.
It's a story of how we never realize what we have in our society; we get blinded by the bright lights of what we think we could have. We chase the carrot though we never really have a chance of ever getting it, and in so doing we don't see what we have right in front of us, and what we can do with it. It's also about how the rich, the same people who rub their success and wealth in our faces, could literally never exist without the rest of us. Their lifestyles, without us, could never be. If everyone stopped going to the movies and stopped buying music or going to concerts and if we all simply just never put another dollar into Hollywood, or any corporate giant...they would collapse instantly and be turned into one of us.
Alas...we instead enable them because we think we could, maybe, hopefully, be just like them. It's delusion on a scale that even the religious institutions are jealous of. Why do you think they are the loudest when it comes to railing about material possessions and celebrity life these days?
