In this film, we are introduced to a dystopian world where overpopulation has led to a strict one-child policy. The movie is centered around identical septuplets who take on the role of one person, with each person going out into the real world with their corresponding day of the week. However, matters take a turn for the worse when Monday does not return home. The rest of the movie details the remaining six sisters searching for their missing sister as they encounter and find out about the dark reality of their world. 

In relation to a worldbuilding that matters, this film depicts a dystopian government where the people lack individuality and instead promote uniformity as a way to oppress people. The government creates a "solution" that benefits the whole in order to disguise the oppression. I found this to be a touching subject as often in our world, we see higher authority attempt to provide alternatives that mask the corruption going on. This film is able to depict not only oppression in its finest form, but also a possibility of how our world can become if we begin to limit population growth on the global scale and promote uniformity over the individual ( as we see 7 sisters act as 1).

For this source, I found it to be both entertaining and provocative. One of the possible humanistic research questions that this source covers is “how does it make sense of the world” as it takes two problems from our world and confines it into this dystopian world. For this source, a film analysis would be best as considering not only the plot, but the director’s cinematographic choices has an impact on the process of worldbuilding that occurs in this film. A secondary approach would be to start a conversation on how the process of controlling overpopulation can result in a similar dystopian world created in this film.

As one of my favorite episodes from Netflix's show Black Mirror, I have previously touched on this episode in a past digital archive. The summary can be viewed here: To Live Is To Know. 

On par with the theme of worldbuilding, the episode creates a society that makes a rating scale, dependent on the amount of likes you receive, as an indicator of your place in society. The episode creates a dark twist on what the world could become if likes and the approval from others takes over the world in a technological sense. 

I found this episode to be quite fascinating and also cynical as we see a woman creating a facade in order to get further in life (often we experience this in our real life). However, this takes a turn for the worse as she ends up going insane, and landing herself in jail. This source advocates or rather creates a world-destroying analysis of the effects of social media and how getting ratings and likes can cause society to become dystopian and fake. I would use film analysis to demonstrate the director’s choices that show how an idealized-perfect society based on ratings can have a negative return on the individuality and sanity of individuals.

The film takes place in a reality television show. The catch is: the main character, Truman, is unknowing that he is the main protagonist nor that his enitre life since birth has been orchestrated for the pleasure of a viewing audience. Yet, everything begins to go wrong when Truman realiizes that his reality is a man-made nightmare. 

Taking this movie in the realm of worldbuilding, we see the process of building a world and then having it being destroyed. We are able to acknowledge the two sides of worldbuilding as we watch the main character live in a created world, and then destroy the world as he realizes that his world is not “real”. On top of this, we see the impacts of consumerism and how it can have a negative toll on society as we watch a person's life being taken away for capitalistic reasons. 

When it comes to watching films, I often look for psychological films to watch. This film is a prime example of this genre. As another example of the world destroying, this film answers the humanistic research question of  "how does this source reflect a changing world?" This film answers this question as it is a reflection of the growing consumerism in America and the boom of technology that will later revolutionize America (as this film was made in 1998).  It also explores the challenges of the individual versus keeping the whole content as the main character leaves his stimulated paradise in order to find himself. I will use film analysis to construct an argument about the simultaneous worldbuilding and world-destroying that this source covers.