Analyzing Movies

For some reason I do not heavily enjoy analyzing movies, especially seemingly innocent movies. I think that movies are for enjoyment and while we should be conscious about what the movie is saying and the ideals and stereotyping it is portraying, we should not overanalyze every single movie ever. Overanalyzing things really makes people crazy, just like reading essays about people over analyzing things.......(ahhhhh)! Not all movies are meant to be deciphered by everyone to the extreme.

The first piece about I, Robot was annoying at best. I understood the message that we should be aware of the things being thrown at us at a time while we let our guard down, but the man's job in the story really seemed tedious and like it really takes the fun out of watching movies. I believe that some movies are worthy of being deciphered such as Fight Club or V for Vendetta but not every single thing that is on the tv screen, its just not worth it. I personally think that analyzing I, Robot is a huge waste of time. I enjoyed the movie and I didn't see it as having hidden messages or anything, I just watched it as pleasure. Maybe I didn't have the analyzing eye when I watched the movie, but I mean honestly, the movie really isn't a big deal. The author seriously needs to calm down and redirect his efforts elsewhere. Some movies are interesting to decipher, such as Star Wars.

The second piece written by a student was interesting and thought provoking because it covered a broad slate of topics. I liked the connections between the movie and American behavior and ideology. I really enjoyed the Western and communism references. I always just watched Star Wars as a cool movie, but when someone compared it to other real world things, it really made me think. 

Analyzing movies lies all in the movie in which the person is analyzing. One must ask himself if what he is doing is worth the effort, in the case of the I, Robot piece, it was most definitely not, while the Star Wars piece was good. 

-Bluey

P.S. Man from I, Robot piece: Get a new job sir

Random, Redundant, Righteous

I think I have to start this blog with saying that the selections were nothing terrific....to put it in a nicely. The reading I kind of thought connected with me the most was the Why do the black kids sit together in the cafeteria. I've seen multiple videos and read different pieces in various classes throughout my education much about this same topic, why ethnicities group together. I myself being Indian did used to hang out with Indian kids back in middle school. I wouldn't say that they were my only group of friends but they were all Indian. I guess I hung out with them because they could relate to some things, which is what the book was talking about. I could say a joke and they would understand it and laugh, which was nice. Later I hung out with a group of black kids, while I was one of three kids who weren't black out of like eight or nine. The example in the book that was used was that a black girl in a mostly white neighborhood would hang out with other black girls because they could relate to what they were going through given the circumstances while the white girls couldn't. It made perfect sense, I never really actually cared enough to understand why it happened. It's not hard to understand, people stick to what they know and people they can relate to; it's the basic rule of relationships.

Most people I know, including myself had their first boyfriend or girlfriend the same ethnicity as them. It kind of makes sense, especially if they're parents kind of brought them up thinking that thats the type of person they should go after. After time though people develop their own type of person they like. When you're young its weird because I guess you don't even really think about who you're attracted to it just happens, and it's weird that we look for  people similar to us. 

The other article I found mildly interesting was the one about the Palestinian American playwright. All I have really to say about that piece is that she had alot of courage to do some of the things that she did around the time she did them. Also she appealed to me with the argument she was making about the detainees held without trial and stuff like that. The biggest problem I had with that piece however was the way she emphasized that she went to Yale and Harvard. It was impressive when she first said it but some places I feel like she really didn't need to include it like when she was saying that she was at graduate school she didn't write any pieces about Palestinian Americans or whatever, she randomly just stuck in Yale school of drama. It really didnt matter where she went. It was annoying that she stuck it in more than once and it was kind of distracting and made me angry. I lost interest in what she was saying. I guess that she needed to keep bringing it up to justify herself as a well to do minority in America. But to be perfectly honest, I really don't care. She annoys me. 

-BLUEY!

Race & Ethnicity suckaaaaa

The article from the book discussed the impact of race and ethnicity on everyone's life and the way that it has changed from 100 to even 50 years ago to now. Things have definitely changed, women's rights, civil rights, gay rights have all been major movements in the 20th century and have made remarkable strides towards equality, unfortunately prejudices and racism still exists today. 

The book also talked about how different races are all the same biologically because we are all human beings and it also talked about different prominence for diseases among different races which I thought was interesting. For example black men have a greater chance of having prostate cancer because of their increased testosterone levels; why is that? What makes one race more susceptible to one disease and the others less? It doesn't really make sense to me unless it all has to do with history and thousands of years of environmental causes. History has definitely favored white men and affirmative action is trying to reverse the injustices history has seen.

The only experience I have had with affirmative action thus far was applying to colleges. The application asks you for your ethnicity, it is optional however it is there nonetheless. I have never put down my ethnicity because I want to get places in life based on my own merit not because of my ethnicity or race. 

The book has been talking alot about race and stereotyping lately which is cool....i guess, but let's see what's in store for future readings.

PEACE!

-bluey