<Articles>Can Connections Be Classified? Existential and Epistemological Connections

Abstract

This paper attempts to explore what our bonds can be and might be through the analysis of films, Shoplifters and This is England. The paper is an analysis of two short sequences from the films. One sequence is in Shoplifters and it involves the mentions about body temperature. The other is in This is England, and involves the promise between Sean and Combo. In conclusion, the paper discusses the aspect of human bonds by contrasting an existential bond in Shoplifters and a bond of epistemology in This is England. This references the contrast between acknowledgement and recognition. Furthermore, the paper makes an analogy between the contrast of bond in two films and John Dewey’s idea about democracy. In The Public and its Problems, Dewey discusses democracy as an idea and democracy as a system. The paper tries to interpret democracy as an idea --a way of life as existential bond. Throughout this course, the paper contemplates the impossibility of categorization our bonds and the possibility that we start to bond from existential dimension.