Part of the content of this MOOC course is to look at some films and try to decide if and how they represent a utopian or dystopian view. There are four videos listed as resources. The first one, Inbox, is about a two young adults trying to find a meaningful relationship.
To me, the use of the bags show that the mystery involved in human relationships can't be replaced by technology. At about 1:48 into the film, the woman logs into her gmail account and seems to be bored with communicating by technology, almost immediately closing the laptop. She then begins her bag relationship with the young man which defies the conventions of normal life. Perhaps the director is telling us the there is something about human relationships that can't be defined, something weird, crazy, and magical.
The other video that I'm putting up was not one of the resources within the course, but it was shared in a tweet by one of the other students in the course. The message is a lot simpler to decipher, but it is also clever and powerful.
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