The worldhood of the world in Wanted

                                   

In his chapter The Worldhood of The world, Heidegger defines worldhood as “the structure of one of the constitutive items of being in the world”(92). a similar definition in EOD “the state or condition of being a world”.  Heidegger introduces the different significations of the word ‘world’ in order to make the term woldhood distinguishable. It shows how different linguistic or lexical meanings controls the way of conveying verified ideas.  In ‘Wanted’ a movie by Morgan Freeman, James McAvoy and Angelina Jolie, we notice that these definitions for the word ‘world’ exist in its multiple significations.

In this movie we are introduced to (McAvoy) small ‘domestic’ world, he is accountant who is bored of his job and the bad treatment of his boss, devastated by the cheating of his girlfriend with his best friend. He then is invited to join a group named ‘The Fraternity’. We moved to another connotation of ‘world’ that suggest a specific group (like Heidegger’s example of the Mathematician world) of people who have their own “realm of possible objects within” (93) their organized system of assassinations.

In one of the scenes McAvoy asks Freeman ‘where the name of the assassinated comes from?’ Freeman answers: “Necessity, necessity to maintain balance in the world.” Here the worldhood of the public ‘’we world’’ is involved in this expression.he simply concieve all the entities in the world as powers that should be kept in balance through the assasinating of those who may disturb this balance.
 

Similarly, Ponty’s Phenomenology Of Perception speaks about one’s own perception for his movement in the space without necessarily need to look at what we are doing, Ponty States that in our movement as a phenomenal bodies, we sense things according to “a directly experienced relationship represented in the natural system of one’s own body, the whole reaction takes place in the domain of the phenomenal"(121).    in Tom And Jerry cartoon, there is a repeated scene that shows tom running near a cliff, and he doesn’t feel that he had passed the cliff and there is nothing beneath him but the emptiness of the valley, he does not recognize that until he look at his foot. Even though we were young kids, but we laugh at this scene because our phenomenal body knows for sure that he should feel the space around him and under his foot without necessarily looking at it. just like Heidegger's example of catching the scissors, needles. Our perception ofTom is that he should not look at his foot as objective space but phenomenal one.