The author examines features of globalization with reference to the Bourne Trilogy. As globalization spreads, national boundaries becomes vague, and many actions/things become cross-border and multinational. Under globalization, film-makers can do storytelling with a world-wide stage. In fact, many thrillers provide demonstration of globalization, how the whole world is connected, with most of them exposing the dark side of globalization, such as cross-border crimes and terrorist attacks. The reason is that the rapid flow of capital, goods, information and people can create many actions beyond the audience’s imagination, adding up to the plot of the films. With many of blockbusters successful excites and entertain us with the disadvantages of globalization, the global audience should ponder, are all the ugliness of globalization should in the films just fiction and are of mere imagination, or are they closer to us than we think they are.
A very good attempt at summarizing the reading by Harris, especially placing emphasis on the complexity of globalization and its impacts on society. Your response would benefit from having a definition of ‘globalization’ in your own words. How do you come to understand globalization?
I came across globalization in secondary school, when Liberal Studies had an entire chapter about globalization, its features and how it works.