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A Brave New World
2024 · Film · short · 9 min
Directed by Arnold Tam
Two COVID-testing employees make out in hazmat suits. A blindfolded student sits on her bed, rhythmically reciting lines from a school textbook. Evocative scenes, rich in symbolism, are strung together to form this striking, wry portrait of Hong Kong’s current social turmoil. Arnold Tam commits to a daring visual style and doesn’t shy away from dashes of absurdity to get his message across.
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Kids don't learn to write novels in literature class either - you've missed the point of such classes.
The point is to read and be exposed to different sorts of literature. This is much easier to do this with material that students are actually interested in instead of 150-year-old romance novels. And as a bonus, the students are a bit more likely to understand the symbolism and references than they would in an old book - the older literature is honestly more suited for a class that hooks both history and literature in the same course.
Literature classes are consumption courses, too, and lead a few to develop a lifelong reading (and consumption) habit, btw. We definitely watched movies based on books: Part of my high school Lit class was doing a comparison between A Brave New World and Demolition Man. (We also had a 12-page senior paper, mine was on Kurt Vonnegut. But that's beside the point.)
And perhaps part of the issue is that you haven't really read a lot of graphic novels so you misunderstand the depth that they can have, especially if you get into more obscure titles.
Reminds me of a movie adaptation of "A Brave New World" where everyone greets each other with "Hey how are you I'm great thank you".