Dystopia of life and death
This essay mainly focus on analyzing “San Junipero” No need to bring up many points, but each point should be fully supported. Here is the prompt: In “The Modern Necropolis,” Keith Eggener, who is a professor of architectural history at the University of Oregon, comments that “if the city of the living was designed for speed and efficiency and business, the city of the dead was instead understood as a kind of quiet peaceful Arcadia — an evocation of paradise or heaven on Earth.” Taking these remarks into account, in what ways is “San Junipero” still a “quiet peaceful Arcadia” and in what ways does the company that runs it promise “speed, efficiency and business”? OR Why does “San Junipero” locate its “Heaven on earth” in the 1980s? And, beyond a fashion revival, what does the nostalgia evoked by the episode reveal about our contemporary moment? Yorkie only knew the 80s, so she wouldn’t have allegedly accessed a different time period, but beyond this plot point, why do you think the episode presents a return to the 80s as something desirable and utopian? Why is “heaven on earth” 1987? And, more importantly, given that Yorkie and Kelly’s marriage would have been illegal in 1987, is the episode rooting for historical do-overs or is there something else going on?
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