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Paradise film (2023) by Boris Kunz presents a dystopian premise of longevity in which “chrono-transfer” enables people to trade for their life years. Rich people can buy youth while poor people sell their life years as a means of survival. This article examines the film using Foucault’s biopower framework, focusing on how chrono-transfer technology represents the privatization of life and body control in liberal capitalism. Through qualitative analysis of essential scenes and dialogs such as Elena’s contract, Elena’s body transformation, and bio-hierarchy dialogs, this article explains its two main findings. The first finding is that anatomo-politics operates within Elena’s body through contract mechanisms, instantaneous body transformation, and self-surveillance. The second finding is that the chrono-transfer system produces population biopolitics in which longevity is unequally distributed, reflecting “state racism”.

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biopower body discipline Michel Foucault Paradise (2023) literary and film study

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Amirudin, A., Ningtyas, T. R. ., Irawan, B. ., & Tisnawijaya, C. . (2026). Anatomo-Politics and Biopolitics in Paradise Film (2023): A Study of Biopower by Michel Foucault. Pasundan Social Science Development, 6(2), 500–510. https://doi.org/10.56457/pascidev.v6i2.352

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