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Bee Movie graduation

by ccManager
Commentary summary:
Bees graduate from the public school system every 15 minutes and go to work in the honey industry

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In Dreamworks' The Bee Movie, an extreme vision of the school-to-work pipeline is seen in the functioning of a beehive. Making frequent allusion to The Graduate, the homogeneity of bee societies prompts a non-conformist bee voiced by Jerry Seinfeld to seek adventure in the world outside, eventually revealing the labor exploitation of the honey industries and organizing a worldwide strike of bees, resulting in a catastrophic agricultural collapse. The depiction of labor organizing is stereotypical of post-McCarthy Hollywood, with striking bees depicted as lazy and uncaring about the global disaster their walkout precipitates. Predictably, the status quo is restored and the bees return to work as an incidental outcome of the resolution of the film's central personal drama, with no significant concessions from the honey industry.


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Copyright 2010, by the Contributing Authors. Cite/attribute Resource. ccManager. (2010, June 12). Bee Movie graduation. Retrieved February 07, 2012, from Critical Commons Web site: http://criticalcommons.org/Members/ccManager/commentaries/bee-movie-graduation. This work is licensed under a No Copyright; No Rights Reserved.