Late August at Hotel Ozone Analysis
The film Late August at Hotel Ozone follows the lives of a troupe of young women in a post-apocalyptic setting. The film shows how the women survive being led by an older woman with previous knowledge of the old world before the nuclear attack. They aim to find other people, mainly men, to help them procreate and save the world. The film’s plotline highlights some of the challenges that women undergo to survive in a harsh world. The characters have different personalities which relate to the previous culture and the choice of locations.
The seven young women provide a different context to their identities as they tend to relate to the previous culture. The culture to which they are associated is primitive and brutish, which tends to echo a pre-civilization context. The film exposes the women’s character as brutish and devoid of any humanity. They go about killing animals in the most inhumane way. They even go a step further and shoot the old man, Otakar Herold in the end when the old woman, Dagmar Hubertus dies. The eight women also embrace the previous culture of hunting and foraging as they traverse forests and plains.
On the other hand, the old woman, Dagmar Hubertus, is a true embodiment of the struggle to achieve the feminist agenda. Dagmar comes from a post-industrial era, where women gained the right to work and provide for their families. She provides the context of the previous culture educating the seven young women of the world before. Furthermore, she displays excellent leadership and survival skills leading women through the dangerous territory as they hunt and survive; a preserve that used to be for men.
Mr Otakar helps introduce the previous culture bu showing the women technology of the past, such as a television, a turntable, and a newspaper. These are items from a culture before the nuclear accident. It helps teach the seven women of technology and life before the nuclear war.