Don They Live Movie Analysis

According to Comolli and Narboni, the notion of category e films refers to an ideology that is firmly established at a starting point; the spectator must know that the film is sending the signal that a particular prevailing ideology is considered the “norm” or the order of things. The spectator has to literally disregard a sector of films in which consciousness of the ideology is elicited in a way that renders it in a straightforward fashion. Then, as the film progresses, the spectator notices obstacles being thrown by the film in the direction of the ruling ideology in order to destabilize it. The spectator attempts to find cracks through the confines of a prevailing ideology by searching for symptoms and discovering the transgressions applied by its formal clearance in order to cause a structural rift within the ideology so that it is mainly presented by the film instead of being presented away from it. As a result, the transforming nature of the prevailing ideology becomes less and less conducive; a greater distance is established from the ideology itself so that the spectator can notice the change in process during the film first-hand. This is …show more content…
There are some several scenes which suggest that there is some form of ideological standard being established as to compose a category e film. As in a typical category e film, the status quo is firmly presented as the central theme at the beginning of the film. A system influenced by capitalism becomes the central ideological theme that is driving the film’s storyline. What compounds the capitalist ideology, by using apparatus theory, is the construction of hierarchy. However, what takes away from this consideration of this film as a category e, is whether the process has dramatically changed; the resistance to the ideology is clearly established, but one wonders, it is actually emitting a shifting sense of reality beyond