Melting Reality, Rising Utopia, or Why You Should Never Come Back to Reality
Melting Reality, Rising Utopia, or Why You Should Never Come Back to Reality

Summary/Abstract: Starting with late modern literature, utopia and dystopia have rarely been found in a pure state. We usually encounter a mixture of utopia and dystopia in the content of one and the same story. Instead of canceling each other, they complement each other because they alternate on the simple principle of action and reaction inside a frame we refer to as fictional reality. This technique has surpassed the borders of literature, going into cinematography, and two of the most intense films that have used it are Zabriskie Point and Easy Rider. We shall take the track of utopia in post-modern times and we will learn its ways based on these two movies. We will see that utopia is nowadays mostly a state of mind and that after finding it, it would be better not to leave it, because reality kills.

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