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furniture and cannibalism (1)

recently had the opportunity to see a movie called "TOKYO!", 2008. This is a trilogy, three medium-length films made by non-Japanese directors and they have in common the capital of Japan as a scenario. Of the three stories, my favorite is "Interior Design" by Michel Gondry, director of "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004, and" The Science of Dreams ", 2006. "Interior Design" is the adaptation of one of the stories in the collection of comic "Cecil and Jordan in New York" cartoonist Gabrielle Bell, who worked with Gondry on the making of the film.

surreal visions and Gondry Bell combine to tell a simple story. Hiroko is a young woman who comes to Tokyo in the company of her boyfriend, Akira, with the goal of making this dream become a renowned movie director. From the beginning we realize that Hiroko is the one responsible for everything it leads the car on the rainy streets while pedestrians make up stories Akira converted mutant amphibians are adapted to the climate of the city, it is she who manages the limited budget as he pretends to be an armed bodyguard to protect. But things are changing and Hiroko see every day as it fades place in the relationship: the only fail to get temporary work is packing in a store, but Hiroko is denied to the matter and only gets the job Akira, Hiroko one must then face the daunting task of finding an apartment in Tokyo, but the city is more bleak than expected and only manages to find disgusting rats nest, and at a price exceeding its meager budget. When it released the debut of Akira, is acclaimed by a select group of critics, Hiroko is relegated to second place in this new world of fame and fans. Hiroko

feel invisible, worthless, despised, until one day she discovers that her mirror image is translucent to the chest. Opened her blouse and discover that there is a gaping hole in his chest, which physically manifest inside she feels empty. This is the first step in a painful and bizarre metamorphosis, through which, paradoxically, Hiroko arrives to discover a new and unexpected place in the world.

I stop here. I have been criticized some sometimes by a large amount of spoilers that I include in my writing, so I leave out the end of the story.

[SPOILER ALERT] I will only add to the end of the story has to do with one of the elements of the title of this article, but not both. [END SPOILER ALERT]

On the same day I saw a movie that was owing me for many, many years. Thirty-seven years to be precise. I refer to the dystopian "Soylent Green", 1973, starring Charlton Heston. As a child my father told me about it, a world beset by overpopulation and global warming global (yes, there were people at that time warning about the inconvenient truth), the difference between the haves and the have-nots is huge, there are people living on the stairs of the buildings and the other must go above them to reach their homes, while a few live in spacious apartments and provide luxuries such as a bar of soap, a towel, a jar of jam, a few scrawny vegetables and occasionally a piece of real meat.

Water is strictly rationed and only available food for the hungry masses are doubtful about cookies look and different colors, which are supposedly made from concentrated plant and plankton. "Soylent Green" variety is the most desired of these cookies, and when people are troubled exhausted so that the police have to intervene and submit them with giant bulldozers. The film is based on the novel "Make Room! Make Room! ", 1966, Harry Harrison, but the crux of the issue (of what made the cookies really are green) is the original tape.

now I will not reveal the terrible secret. My intention is to refer to another element that introduces the film, one which, though apparently trivial, illustrates the limits to which you can get the human condition.

rich apartments are fully furnished and as part of the furniture included a young, attractive women who also happen to be owned by purchasing the apartment. These women are called "furniture" (furniture or furniture in English) and are treated as such. A policeman arrives to investigate a crime scene has no problem in making use of the girl and sleep with her, and who makes use of a sofa to sit.

is what I mean about the human condition: we stop treating people as individuals when we stop calling people. That makes things easier. The first step in dehumanizing the other is to stop human name.

is what the wicked Queen of Hearts in "Alice en el País de las Maravillas”, 2010. Los animales del país de las maravillas se comportan todo el tiempo como personas, hablan como personas, se visten como personas, así que para todos los asuntos prácticos son personas. ¿Qué hace la reina de corazones? Los convierte en objetos. Usa a los flamencos y tejones para jugar al criquet, nerviosos miquitos son sus sillas, mesitas y candelabros, y un cerdito le sirve de cojín para apoyar los pies.

Es un asunto de poder.

Hay un ejemplo al respecto en la literatura, en un libro clásico donde un hombre se enfrenta a un terrible monstruo marino. Herman Melville publicó “Moby Dick” en 1851 y en esa novela incluye a un pintoresco personaje Queequeg name. This is a "savage" cannibal from a South Pacific island [SPOILER ALERT] why is it up cannibalism in an article that mentions "Soylent Green"? I am unable to leave the spoilers [END SPOILER ALERT] . Rightful heir to the throne of his tribe, he leaves everything to know who called civilized world, Christianity, and grows into a clever Canadian.

Queequeg has no problem using people as furniture. We see him sitting idly on a sailor asleep and express surprise when the protagonist warns the matter.

Queequeg

settled just after the head of the sleeper, and lighted his tomahawk pipe. We continue past the pipe above the sleeper, from one to another. Meanwhile, responding to my questions in their limited English, managed to make me understand that Queequeg in his land because of the lack of chairs and sofas of any kind, the king, chiefs, and the important people in general, had a habit to fatten some lower level to make the Ottoman times, and furnish their homes comfortably with them, you just had to buy eight to ten types lazy, and spread in different bedrooms. He was also very convenient for sightseeing; preferable those lawn chairs that convert into sticks, when required, a boss might call your servant, for it was available on a seat under the shade of a tree, perhaps in some damp or swampy.

Herman Melville, "Moby Dick" , 1851.

Melville tells it like a wild custom, outside the civilized world, ie belonging to the continuous cultures indistinguishable "uncivilized" that were not part of European civilization and Christianity. In that sense, Queequeg is an archetype. But I think we should take it rather as a warning of what we can all become capable to do.

Cannibalism and using people as furniture are two sides of same coin. And I dare say that, from an anthropological point of view, perhaps better off out cannibalism when it is a ritual in the culture, because I crave the characteristics of the other is that as its flesh, to see if by this means acquire these desired characteristics. From the anthropological point of view, I said, because from the point of view of the poor victim "ritual" means most likely a slow and painful death.

In our current "civilized" world, consider the other as a thing has been described as a symptom of serious psychiatric disorders or neurological. One of the symptoms that have been described Asperger's Syndrome (I understand that is a form of autism) is that people are not perceived as creatures who think and feel, it is often said of patients with this syndrome that confuse people with furniture. It is also a characteristic of psychopaths , as in the case of a murderer who killed the wife of Roman Polanski, Charles Manson, whom she says she saw other people as if they were inanimate objects or furniture of the world around. Perhaps the most famous case is described by the neurologist Oliver Sacks, a sort of Mr. Magoo of meat and bone identified as Dr. P .

... also seemed to decide that the visit was over and started looking around for his hat. He reached out and grabbed his wife by trying to put it on the head. He seemed to have mistaken his wife for a hat! She seemed to be accustomed to those mishaps.

Oliver Sacks, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", 1985.

But I'm being unfair to Dr. P. when included in the same list and sick psychopaths lack empathy. He was unable to recognize faces and saw people just abstract forms, but it was enough just a gesture, slightest movement, so that identifying all of its humanity.

can rest assured that this is something that happens only to this type of sick or we can keep digging a bit further on the matter. These individuals have no choice, in many cases are not even aware that something is missing.

But what happens when an individual decides to deprive the other of his status as a person?

What happens when there is an individual who makes this decision but an entire society?

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