Allen's Sleeper

Today in class we got the opportunity to see a really funny film, Woody Allen's Sleeper. The film is about Miles Monroe, who is a jazz musician and also a health food store owner. He is cryonically frozen and then revived 200 years later. He awakes to an underground movement and a dictator led society. The dictator is planning to implement something known as the "Aires Project". The underground movement plans to use him as a spy, however, the authorities catch on to the plan and arrest the movement, but Monroe escapes. Along the way he meets a socialite Luna Schlosser (Jewish of course) who is played by Allen's long time film companion Diane Keaton. They eventually run away together, not completely voluntarily on Schlosser's behalf, and are caught by the police, Monroe distracts them while Schlosser escapes finding her true identity and the underground movement. With her new sense of self and purpose, she rescues Monroe and infiltrate the "Aires Project" only to learn that the leader was killed by a bomb months earlier. The film is super hilarious and reminded me of my previous post about Michel Foucault and Panopticism. In this new and modern world that Allen and Keaton's characters experience, it seems privacy is non-existant. Is this what we are to look forward to? I hope not!