Satire In Sleeper
In Woody Allen's Sleeper, Miles Monroe is unfrozen in the year 2173 only to be exposed to a world in which the values from 200 years earlier are turned on their head. Rather than crtiquing the possible future, Allen uses this time travel as a satiric viewpoint on the current present in which we all live. Commenting on the social, technological and romantic state of events, Sleeper points us not forward but at our present selves as we view a world in which human interaction, love and independency are the norms by which to live.
The world in which Miles awakes is certainly a culture shock. Although the controlling government threatens indisgressions with a brain-scrambling, people appear happy due to a sterile dependency on orgasmatrons for sexual pleasure and an orb for a euphoric high. During a group dinner, Luna comments that "we should have had sex but their weren't enough people." This jabs at the current state of affairs in the early seventies in which sex was shifting away......
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