Readers might find J.G Ballard’s short story ironic. Told through literature, J.G Ballard describes a world completely consumed with a screen/film, so much that physical human contact no longer existed. Ballard uses The Intensive Care unit to reveal the relationship between film and literature.. The narrator of The Intensive Care Unit states “it seems only fitting that a complete record of this event should be made” (Ballard, 195). The narrator believes the camera possess the capability to portray the event occurring between the narrator and his family to an audience in the way he sees it. When he discusses his wife’s smile he says how he believes the viewers will see it, “ironic or even threating”, however the narrator finds it beautiful (195).Without
