Film Analysis The Film Cronos By Guillermo Del Toro

The ideas of what a utopian society should look like changes when talking to different people in different parts of the world. More often than not most people would say that violence is not a part of this utopian ideal and that man has found a way to work past that and find a better solution to the violent issues we have seen in the past. Films in a sense are a way for artists to explore these utopian and dystopia ideals and present them to the public as a looking glass into what the world could look like. For many of us we live in a capitalistic society or a society with at least some forms of capitalistic ruling. Film makers in Latin America have used their position to critique and analyze the different forms of capitalism and how the†¦show more content†¦As for Jesus Gris he was not originally afflicted by the idea of being lower class once presented with the opportunity to gain affluence he does not hesitate to accept it. In turn he neglects to think about the conflicts and consequences that may come with it. The consumer (Jesus) eventually became dependent on the Cronos device (the commodity). This shows how interdependent the market is with the consumer and the commodity. One can not exist with out the other once one has fallen to dependency. The violence that can ensue when it comes to consumerism and the market is depicted between Jesus and Dieter de la Guardia. One man from the lower class and the other from the elites both fight over control for the commodity and who should be able to reap its benefits. At de La Gurdias warehouse we are shown statues of the Virgin Mary hanging from the ceiling like pieces of meat. This shows how consumeristic violence can begin to over shadow even the most important moral aspects of human existence. The idea that statues were just failed attempts at attaining the Cronos show just how neglected religion has become in a consumerism society. Class conflict can also be seen in the types of cars people drive, Jesu s whose car is pushed of a ledge was an older model while Angel de La Gurdias car is much nicer. The idea that capitalism is a criticism on the poor can be seen the way Dieter thinks Jesus is unworthy of controlling the