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October 30, 2004
Week 2 Film "They Live"
I remember this film has totally different impression between the start of it and the end of it.At first it seemed like a realistic story of a traveler who is trying to find a job. But suddenly the sun glasses, the special function to recognize who's not people. Actually I liked the idea of the glasses function to tell what's behind of various kinds of media like books, billboards, TV and so on by ummerizing that into simple texts like "Obey", "Sleep" etc. But why suddenly wrestlers? why is that fighting scene is ridiculously long? That made me think about what's the background of this film's birth. Thinking about that it's echo from the film "Merchants of Cool". The trend of that time, wrestling was so popular and maybe the "man" of the production company wanted to insert the scene that long to attract people to watch the film and make money. It's kind of depressing to think about what's behind the media like this almost always money. And also the last part of scene was 2 buddies trying to escape from the building and it feels like from famous arcade games of that time which I don't know what the tiles are. Media affected by other media, media affecting people and also people affecting media... This is really powerful interactivity which flows around the world and makes me think about what's other side of this. If this media has bad influence(it is also not an easy thing to tell what's bad influence and what's not and why), what kind of power related to regulate this and specifically what's the organization in a country to deal with this problem.
Posted by doox at October 30, 2004 09:13 AM
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