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Running head: THOUGHTS OF A ZOMBIE
Thoughts of a Zombie
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note
Thoughts of a Zombie
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note
THOUGHTS OF A ZOMBIE
1
Before going into the depths of the discussion, first of all a short overview of the plot of
the film chosen for analysis, ‘Song from the Second Floor’ must be provided. The film illustrates
the tragedies of human life through certain unfortunate outcomes and incidents. Those
unfortunate incidents include the humiliating experience of a clerk who was fired from his job
and no amount of begging could move the Boss, a magician committing a professional fault by
cutting through a person’s body, a foreigner getting thrashed openly at the street and no one
coming to his rescue, women being made the scapegoat for making the acts of the corporations
successful who at the ends her life, a man throwing crucifixes at a dumpyard signifying the
uselessness of religion. The matter of concern over here is to analyze how the behaviour of the
protagonist, Karl, matches with the theorization of Soren Kierkegaard, whether he joins the lot of
the zombies, or he chooses the path of spirituality!
With regard to making an attempt to analyze the film, “Songs from the Second Floor”, it
can be said that the film portrays the moral decadence and the degeneration of human beings
which were a direct result of either the failure that they have incurred in life, or a result of their
over ambitiousness which had led them to call peril upon the lives of others, and ultimately upon
themselves (Kierkegaard, 2013). To provide a justified appropriation of the message of the film
as intended to by Anderson, the director of the film to convey has been that the sole motivation
of all human activities is to maximise the quotient of pleasure and comfort, and reduce the
quotient of pain, sufferings, hardships and all adversities. An essence of the Utilitarian
philosophy of Jeremy Bentham can be found in the film, with particular reference to this aspect
of securitizing one’s prospects of seeking better life (Mill & Bentham, 1987).
However, as the theorization of Soren Kierkegaard goes, all those activities aimed at
having a good life, fetched the characters momentary pleasures, and in the long run all of them
1
Before going into the depths of the discussion, first of all a short overview of the plot of
the film chosen for analysis, ‘Song from the Second Floor’ must be provided. The film illustrates
the tragedies of human life through certain unfortunate outcomes and incidents. Those
unfortunate incidents include the humiliating experience of a clerk who was fired from his job
and no amount of begging could move the Boss, a magician committing a professional fault by
cutting through a person’s body, a foreigner getting thrashed openly at the street and no one
coming to his rescue, women being made the scapegoat for making the acts of the corporations
successful who at the ends her life, a man throwing crucifixes at a dumpyard signifying the
uselessness of religion. The matter of concern over here is to analyze how the behaviour of the
protagonist, Karl, matches with the theorization of Soren Kierkegaard, whether he joins the lot of
the zombies, or he chooses the path of spirituality!
With regard to making an attempt to analyze the film, “Songs from the Second Floor”, it
can be said that the film portrays the moral decadence and the degeneration of human beings
which were a direct result of either the failure that they have incurred in life, or a result of their
over ambitiousness which had led them to call peril upon the lives of others, and ultimately upon
themselves (Kierkegaard, 2013). To provide a justified appropriation of the message of the film
as intended to by Anderson, the director of the film to convey has been that the sole motivation
of all human activities is to maximise the quotient of pleasure and comfort, and reduce the
quotient of pain, sufferings, hardships and all adversities. An essence of the Utilitarian
philosophy of Jeremy Bentham can be found in the film, with particular reference to this aspect
of securitizing one’s prospects of seeking better life (Mill & Bentham, 1987).
However, as the theorization of Soren Kierkegaard goes, all those activities aimed at
having a good life, fetched the characters momentary pleasures, and in the long run all of them
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