Depiction of Dystopian World in Alexander Payne’s Downsizing

Abstract

This paper attempts to study Alexander Payne’s Downsizing through a dystopian perspective in which it highlights the aspects of dystopia in Downsizing. It discusses the working of a dystopian government which is oppressive and describing the instances that signifies that the government depicted in Downsizing as tyrannical. It projects the ways in which the government tries to justify their deeds of downsizing their rivalries. This chapter also analyses the effects caused by technology in facilitating the destruction of nature and mankind in a dystopian world. It also describes the aspects of eco- dystopia present in the movie in which it highlights the impact of the interference of human beings with nature which subsequently leads to the possibility of an apocalyptic vision. It discusses the relationship of dominance and subjectivity between man -kind and nature where human beings generally take on the role of the master and nature is treated as an entity to be destroyed and exploited by human beings.