

Another significant point is the cultural fear of running out of natural resources, and the corresponding desire to find alternative ways to supply America with the resources it needs. In the film, Sulley is a monster who is good Cohen would argue that this monster is messing with binary norms that we are comfortable with. The most obvious one is that people are not always who you think they are. What is the cultural significance of the movie Monsters, Inc.? There are two reasons why this movie is culturally significant.

In Cohen’s first thesis “The Monster’s Body is a Cultural Body,” he suggests that monsters embody and reveal powerful cultural anxieties (68, 69). In Jeffery Jerome Cohen’s “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)” he argues that monsters always reveal something about the culture at the time the monster was popular (68, 69). (2001) illustrates what was happening in our culture when this movie was made. At the end of the movie, the scream company changes to making kids laugh laughter now powers the city. Sulley also discovers that children’s laughter is ten times as powerful as their screams. Through the process of getting her home, Sulley discovers that the owner of the scream company is trying to find new ways to get screams out of children.

Sulley (one of the monsters who scares children) comes upon a human child, and he tries to get her home. Screams are becoming scarcer because children are becoming less afraid of monsters. is about a city where monsters live, and their town is fueled on the screams of human children.
