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The Book Of Eli: Film Analysis

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The Book of Eli is a film with a unique vision of a post-apocalyptic United States that has no history or semblance of society. When compared to the other films we have seen up to this point, Take Shelter, Soylent Green and Children of Men, The Book of Eli stands out as the first movie we have seen in this class that does not rely on a tyrannical social structure or society to display its post-apocalyptic narrative. All of these films have a society within their dystopian narrative that acts as an antagonist. Take Shelter has a society similar, if not exactly same, to the one we have today while Soylent Green and Children of Men have more tyrannical societies. In The Book of Eli there is no semblance of an orderly national society or culture.

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