Ever since The Hunger Games was released, American culture has grasped the new era of dystopian films. Novels are being written than turn into popular films that not only the teens love. However, while these movies warn their audiences of "over-reliance on computers, totalitarian rule, class warfare, pandemic panics and global warming" they don't mention anything about racism or sexism. All of this was the introduction to the main idea of the article which is that the dystopian movies don't include problems we have in divisions of society today. These movies make their audience think that these problems vanish in the future which doesn't make sense. The author then goes on to give examples in the movies like Hunger Games and Divergent which support his claims.
The tone of the article is mainly formal when the author is addressing the idea that these serious issues need to be shown and not hidden away. He especially talks strongly about the fact that Hollywood does not take the opportunity to talk about theses touchy subjects. They merely just brush it off. However he also uses a touch of humor around the middle of the article as a sort of comic relief from the topic of these heavy subjects. The purpose of the article was not only to inform the reader of the fact that most movies don't mention these subjects, but also to persuade other movies to do so. He does this by appealing to the readers emotions by describing these problems in society. The article concludes with an example of a book that does mention the issues of racism and sexism and the author urges future movies an novels to do so as well.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/11/the-topics-dystopian-films-wont-touch/382509/?single_page=true
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