Tuesday's Content

The short film named, "The Street", in which the boy had a very old and ill grandmother kind of struck me as morbidly accurate. Sometimes people in our lives get very sick or maybe just old, and we end up waiting for their death. Sometimes this fact is acknowledged and sometimes it is not realized to be happening. Whether we see it or not though, the waiting for death is such a common thing in this world. We know it is inevitable for everyone, but when people get old or sick this fact becomes more real to the people in their life. Sometimes the fact of death is ignored by their loved ones, or even fought by them, but a lot of times people accept the fact. After accepting that death is going to come for someone in their life, it is kind of just a waiting game. Sometimes there is more of a reason to wait for death, like the boy in this film (so he could have his grandma's room) and sometimes it is merely so the person and their loved ones can be at peace. I just never really thought about how common the act of waiting for death was until pointed out to me by this film.

Another thing i would like to briefly discuss is when Leeper mentioned the audience needing a certain amount of stamina to stay engaged in a film. I actually do not agree with this at all. Maybe it is because I'm not a DMA major, so i don't fully understand both sides of media, and how to be a "good audience", but I think a film should not have to have an audience with stamina in order for it to be appreciated. Even if the purpose of a film is not to entertain, someone who appreciates it (if it is good) will be interested initially without this concept. If someone must have "stamina" to watch a film, then they just don't appreciate that kind of film and should watch something they enjoy and are engaged in from the start. Those are just my thoughts though, take 'em or leave 'em.

This is just a little analysis of the short film we watched called "Two Sisters". Even though Marie thinks that she is helping Viola by sheltering her and locking her in the house, she might actually be making her life worse than it has to be. Viola is extremely deformed in the face, but this in no way effects her amazing writing abilities. She writes and apparently sends it out for people to read somehow. A man who enjoys her reading very much finds them somehow and wants to meet Viola. Even after he coaxes her to let him see her for all that she is, he is not afraid or looking down on her in any way. His admiration is not at all diminished due to her physical appearance and he still wants her autograph. If Viola was allowed to go out and find out about all of the people who could potentially appreciate her writing as well, they probably would not care about her deformities either and she might have a higher sense of self worth.