Hope is Here. Change is Coming

I cannot start this blog without mentioning how amazing it is to know that Obama is going to be our next president!! Not to mention how shocking and wonderful was Brown's reaction. Marching down Thayer, through RISD, past Kennedy Plaza, and into the steps of the State Capitol, was a great way to celebrate, and a great addition to my freshmen year memories.



Anyways back to screens and projections.



"Not least since Orwell's 1949 vision of an aggressively invasive authoritarian 1984, our sense of the future -- and increasingly of the present--has been marked by the fear of being watched, controlled, and robbed of our privacy."

Just that first page got me thinking. Live Free or Die Hard is a combination of both films that we watched. It takes The Conversations' public spying on the public idea and Enemy of State's use of private cameras to spy on the public. Unlike in the Tiennamen Square incident, harmless traffic control systems are used to spy on the public in hopes of over throwing the government. It can be argued that when this happened after the clashes in Tiennamen Square, it was for the good of the people, for their protection. Live Free or Die Hard shows how easy it is for our forms of protection to be exploited.

The article also commented on the secret camera being part of the narration. Its impossible for me not to think of The Truman Show. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYj2m1yVpGU ) I love this trailer because it shows not only this week's topic, but past ones. To begin with, we can see that many things cannot be seen until the secret camera leads us to it. In the scene were Truman's wife arrives with the groceries, you can also see how advertising is intertwined with the rest of the narration. The trailer also shows a scene where Truman is talking to his best friend. You can see the editing team adding dramatic music and editing the scenes. Just proof of how music has as much importance as the angles the movie is shot in. Most importantly, this also shows Levin's argument of how you just assume what you see is real when in reality it can very easily be edited.