The purpose of this blog is to express our thoughts and share ideas about the short stories and discussions in class. So get on the blog everyone, and let us hear your thoughts and opinions!
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Check out this video!
Please take a look at this video and post your response. How do you think it is related to our course theme of enslavement?
First off, I would like to say this video is amazing. It captures the theme of enslavement very well. But relating to the question you asked, this video definitely thrives off the enslavement theme, in this case enslavement in society. Constantly we see young girls in our America wanting to be someone they admire instead of themselves. The most common of these is “celebrities”…Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Shakira, whoever! Celebrities seem to shape all of us in some way, both men and women (but I will express among the woman issue). We want to be rich, famous, look attractive, fit…the whole nine yards, but what this video portrays that even though you “try” to become someone you aren’t, you have to face the fact that one day you have to be yourself. You have to be individual. The robot face machine in this example was the “young girl”, and the TV was a “Paris Hilton”. The face machine tried so hard to look like someone else on the screen, that when it came to the point that she had to become and be herself, she couldn’t bear it and broke. This expresses enslavement in society.
Good response, Tahliah! To continue the dialogue you have started here, I think everybody or at least most of us have role models we admire and sometimes even emulate, in our formative years. For instance, I think that Michelle Obama is a positive role model for so many young girls. Johny Depp, for instance could be a role model for many young men. Now these two are examples of positive role models. What we have in this video clip is another matter entirely. It is important to recognize that when a certain kind of admiration/emulation becomes detrimental to our personal growth or enrichment, it enslaves us.
I hope the others will have contributed their thoughts to most of my posts on this blog, by Tuesday night!
This video was a little scary!! I think this video is related to our course theme of enslavement because the machine in this video was becoming enslaved to the T.V. because it wanted to look exactly like the girl on the screen. This is very common in society today, and I believe will be around forever. In today's society young girls are enslaved by models to look like them, even though looking like them can harm themselves. The young girls do not care because by seeing what the models look like they feel that is how a woman should look and in order to be accepted in society they must look like that. This was portrayed in this video because the machine kept changing itself to look exactly like the girl on the screen. Towards the end of the video the T.V. was moving farther and farther away, and each time it would move away the machine would move closer even though it could not stretch that far. At the end of the video the machine eventually broke because of its own passion to look exactly like the girl on the television. The machine was enslaved to looking like the girl on the screen and because of it the machine fell apart. This relates back to what I was saying about the young girls in society today. Young girls will do anything to look like some models, and enslave themselves to be viewed in that way which eventually results in them breaking down and eventually falling apart by putting themselves in danger. ~Nicole Treschitta~
this video kind of creeped me out at first not going to lie
I think what Nicole and Tahliah had to say are very correct and I agree with them.
Society and the public eye enslave many celebrities in thinking they have to be something that is not necessarily who they are or want to be. As the TV moves away from the person..? it can no longer reach it and see what is on the screen. This symbolizes us as the critics or fans moving farther away from our individuality and becoming enslaved by the image the celebrity puts off because we want to be like them so much. When the machine person thingy breaks that is a perfect example of a celebrity or us cracking under the pressure. Society paints them a beautiful picture and when they have to maintain that picture it can stress them out or wear down on them. It reminds me of Britney Spears' mental breakdown in 2007 and Robert Downey Jr. succumbing to alcoholism and drug addiction when he was such a young talented actor. It's also like non-famous people because we can be bent on becoming a celebrity or making our parents happy so much that we loose ourselves in the process and when you finally try and find yourself and try and break free of the enslavement, you can't always walk away bruise free. It can break you down.
I'm enjoying your very interesting perspectives into this,yes, truly creepy video. I almost didn't post it since it is awfully distasteful, but then decided to go with it since I figured you folks could handle a tad disturbing material especially as it relates to our course theme. I like the examples of celebrities-their struggle to keep up appearances and fit into a cookie cutter mould dictated by popular demand. Our need for approval by others/society is natural since we are social human beings but the question is the thin line between positive control (by society or by oneself) and that of enslavement. So, are we going to cow down to popular sentiment even when it doesn't work for us, or are we simply going to have a blast being true to ourselves (or at least trying to find our true selves)?! I appreciate your responses.
This video was creepy. Altho it does capture the theme of enslavement very well, it makes it out to be like most people are enslaved by a constant need too look good. Not everyone is that shallow. The video does bring up a good point that people are enslaved by the way we look, but I personally think that it goes too far. The robot kept wanting to look like the TV, like little girls usually strive to look like their mother or sister or female in their family. The actuality is that the thought of people being robots has been there since H.G. Wells wrote "The Time Machine." No one is perfect and no one can say the entirety of the population is addicted to how they look. As a generalization, yes, it makes sense, but other than that, I do not think it works for everyone.
Yes, I agree with you. Of course not all of us are hung up on looks. Surely we have better things to do. But this video portrays those victims of society who are in the powerful grip of a media generated image, a beauty standard or keeping up with popular sentiment. It is a metaphor for other forms of enslavement as well.
I think this video mirrors those who enslave themselves by virtue of their ignorance, upbringing, culture or simply not knowing any better-there could be several reasons. We cannot possibly relate to all the different forms of enslavement personally. Our endeavor is an attempt to analyze the psyche behind enslaved minds in a society.
I think this video was a little strange. But it portrays the theme of enslavement very well. To men this video was showing how girls everywhere inspire to be someone who they are not. The television represents media. I feel every young girl, and even teenagers feel they must look like and live up to their favorite celebrity. Girls today are enslaved by what they think they should look like, and what they actually look like. To most this is disheartening because we will never be Paris HIlton, Britney Spears or the other celebrities. We are who we are, and this video shows that trying to become someone else ultimately makes you invisible- or broken.
I believe this video relates perfectly with the topic Enslavement. She wanted to be like the girl on the screen, to be how they are "suppose" to look like. Just like how teenage girls and boys look up to celebrities onto how they are "suppose" to act. But some kids not only look at the celebrities but there friends as well, who may look and act like they are a celebrity themselves. I believe this video was saying that you cant change who you are, that everyone is unique and no one should try to change you.
I also feel that video was a bit strange, but it directly relates to theme of enslavement. She wanted to be just like the girl on the screen like most teenage girls what to be like their favorite celebrities. They mimic there every move from facial features to attitude. Until they try to portray them too much and they crack or break as they should have been themselves and not tried to be like someone else.
This video is very strange but it captures the theme of enslavement very well. It shows that girls think that they have to try to be like someone they are not and they push themselves to try to act a certain way. Everyone should be who they are and not someone they want to be.
The video shows how young impressional girls in our society strive to be "perfect" and how the media portrays beautiful. Since the media is edited and never completely real, girls are breaking their backs to achieve this unobtainable look. The tv changing channels shows how quickly what is acceptable may change and the doll's reaction shows how eager girls can be to adapt. If they dont look like the girls on tv and in the magazines then they feel poorly about themselves. Media plays a big role enslaving society into thinking what is acceptable or not.
This video shows how growing girls watch the people in the media and aspire to be just like them. They're basically enslaved within themselves because they think that they have no choice but to be the way they see these celebrities. In their minds, that's beautiful and perfect and if they are different, they aren't good enough. The celebrities on television are nothing like this in real life, and that's what they don't understand. Underneath the airbrush makeup is a normal person. These girls don't see that. They see what's portrayed on the TV and magazines and feel like they need to be just like that.
First off, I would like to say this video is amazing. It captures the theme of enslavement very well.
ReplyDeleteBut relating to the question you asked, this video definitely thrives off the enslavement theme, in this case enslavement in society. Constantly we see young girls in our America wanting to be someone they admire instead of themselves. The most common of these is “celebrities”…Paris Hilton, Beyonce, Shakira, whoever! Celebrities seem to shape all of us in some way, both men and women (but I will express among the woman issue). We want to be rich, famous, look attractive, fit…the whole nine yards, but what this video portrays that even though you “try” to become someone you aren’t, you have to face the fact that one day you have to be yourself. You have to be individual. The robot face machine in this example was the “young girl”, and the TV was a “Paris Hilton”. The face machine tried so hard to look like someone else on the screen, that when it came to the point that she had to become and be herself, she couldn’t bear it and broke. This expresses enslavement in society.
Tahliah M. Davidson
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ReplyDeleteGood response, Tahliah! To continue the dialogue you have started here, I think everybody or at least most of us have role models we admire and sometimes even emulate, in our formative years. For instance, I think that Michelle Obama is a positive role model for so many young girls. Johny Depp, for instance could be a role model for many young men. Now these two are examples of positive role models. What we have in this video clip is another matter entirely. It is important to recognize that when a certain kind of admiration/emulation becomes detrimental to our personal growth or enrichment, it enslaves us.
ReplyDeleteI hope the others will have contributed their thoughts to most of my posts on this blog, by Tuesday night!
This video was a little scary!!
ReplyDeleteI think this video is related to our course theme of enslavement because the machine in this video was becoming enslaved to the T.V. because it wanted to look exactly like the girl on the screen. This is very common in society today, and I believe will be around forever. In today's society young girls are enslaved by models to look like them, even though looking like them can harm themselves. The young girls do not care because by seeing what the models look like they feel that is how a woman should look and in order to be accepted in society they must look like that. This was portrayed in this video because the machine kept changing itself to look exactly like the girl on the screen. Towards the end of the video the T.V. was moving farther and farther away, and each time it would move away the machine would move closer even though it could not stretch that far. At the end of the video the machine eventually broke because of its own passion to look exactly like the girl on the television. The machine was enslaved to looking like the girl on the screen and because of it the machine fell apart. This relates back to what I was saying about the young girls in society today. Young girls will do anything to look like some models, and enslave themselves to be viewed in that way which eventually results in them breaking down and eventually falling apart by putting themselves in danger.
~Nicole Treschitta~
this video kind of creeped me out at first not going to lie
ReplyDeleteI think what Nicole and Tahliah had to say are very correct and I agree with them.
Society and the public eye enslave many celebrities in thinking they have to be something that is not necessarily who they are or want to be. As the TV moves away from the person..? it can no longer reach it and see what is on the screen. This symbolizes us as the critics or fans moving farther away from our individuality and becoming enslaved by the image the celebrity puts off because we want to be like them so much. When the machine person thingy breaks that is a perfect example of a celebrity or us cracking under the pressure. Society paints them a beautiful picture and when they have to maintain that picture it can stress them out or wear down on them. It reminds me of Britney Spears' mental breakdown in 2007 and Robert Downey Jr. succumbing to alcoholism and drug addiction when he was such a young talented actor. It's also like non-famous people because we can be bent on becoming a celebrity or making our parents happy so much that we loose ourselves in the process and when you finally try and find yourself and try and break free of the enslavement, you can't always walk away bruise free. It can break you down.
-Erin Sawyer
I'm enjoying your very interesting perspectives into this,yes, truly creepy video. I almost didn't post it since it is awfully distasteful, but then decided to go with it since I figured you folks could handle a tad disturbing material especially as it relates to our course theme.
ReplyDeleteI like the examples of celebrities-their struggle to keep up appearances and fit into a cookie cutter mould dictated by popular demand. Our need for approval by others/society is natural since we are social human beings but the question is the thin line between positive control (by society or by oneself) and that of enslavement.
So, are we going to cow down to popular sentiment even when it doesn't work for us, or are we simply going to have a blast being true to ourselves (or at least trying to find our true selves)?!
I appreciate your responses.
This video was creepy. Altho it does capture the theme of enslavement very well, it makes it out to be like most people are enslaved by a constant need too look good. Not everyone is that shallow. The video does bring up a good point that people are enslaved by the way we look, but I personally think that it goes too far. The robot kept wanting to look like the TV, like little girls usually strive to look like their mother or sister or female in their family.
ReplyDeleteThe actuality is that the thought of people being robots has been there since H.G. Wells wrote "The Time Machine." No one is perfect and no one can say the entirety of the population is addicted to how they look. As a generalization, yes, it makes sense, but other than that, I do not think it works for everyone.
Good point!
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree with you. Of course not all of us are hung up on looks. Surely we have better things to do. But this video portrays those victims of society who are in the powerful grip of a media generated image, a beauty standard or keeping up with popular sentiment. It is a metaphor for other forms of enslavement as well.
I think this video mirrors those who enslave themselves by virtue of their ignorance, upbringing, culture or simply not knowing any better-there could be several reasons. We cannot possibly relate to all the different forms of enslavement personally. Our endeavor is an attempt to analyze the psyche behind enslaved minds in a society.
I think this video was a little strange. But it portrays the theme of enslavement very well. To men this video was showing how girls everywhere inspire to be someone who they are not. The television represents media. I feel every young girl, and even teenagers feel they must look like and live up to their favorite celebrity. Girls today are enslaved by what they think they should look like, and what they actually look like. To most this is disheartening because we will never be Paris HIlton, Britney Spears or the other celebrities. We are who we are, and this video shows that trying to become someone else ultimately makes you invisible- or broken.
ReplyDeleteI also believe that this video was a bit creepy.
ReplyDeleteI believe this video relates perfectly with the topic Enslavement. She wanted to be like the girl on the screen, to be how they are "suppose" to look like. Just like how teenage girls and boys look up to celebrities onto how they are "suppose" to act. But some kids not only look at the celebrities but there friends as well, who may look and act like they are a celebrity themselves. I believe this video was saying that you cant change who you are, that everyone is unique and no one should try to change you.
I also feel that video was a bit strange, but it directly relates to theme of enslavement. She wanted to be just like the girl on the screen like most teenage girls what to be like their favorite celebrities. They mimic there every move from facial features to attitude. Until they try to portray them too much and they crack or break as they should have been themselves and not tried to be like someone else.
ReplyDeleteThis video is very strange but it captures the theme of enslavement very well. It shows that girls think that they have to try to be like someone they are not and they push themselves to try to act a certain way. Everyone should be who they are and not someone they want to be.
ReplyDeleteThe video shows how young impressional girls in our society strive to be "perfect" and how the media portrays beautiful. Since the media is edited and never completely real, girls are breaking their backs to achieve this unobtainable look. The tv changing channels shows how quickly what is acceptable may change and the doll's reaction shows how eager girls can be to adapt. If they dont look like the girls on tv and in the magazines then they feel poorly about themselves. Media plays a big role enslaving society into thinking what is acceptable or not.
ReplyDeleteThis video shows how growing girls watch the people in the media and aspire to be just like them. They're basically enslaved within themselves because they think that they have no choice but to be the way they see these celebrities. In their minds, that's beautiful and perfect and if they are different, they aren't good enough. The celebrities on television are nothing like this in real life, and that's what they don't understand. Underneath the airbrush makeup is a normal person. These girls don't see that. They see what's portrayed on the TV and magazines and feel like they need to be just like that.
ReplyDelete