Tragedy in Media

The other day was a very intriguing study of tragedy. I view media very much the way that Professor Leeper described with the quote he gave us. I believe it went something like “30,000 kids died last night from starvation. Most people don’t give a s***. The sad part is that most of you are more upset that I said s*** than the fact that 30,000 kids died last night from starvation.” It proves the point that people worry too much on things like violence, nudity, and language than the actual story line.

Going onto the movies now; they were very thought provoking in my opinion. Small Hands was thought provoking because of the direct display of life and death. You could also connect this to the way people loose what they love the most. I found it to be very, brutally, honest with society and how we shut out the pain of loosing whom we love.

Fridge was unique in the way that it presented humanity and how people react to tragedy and or accidents in real life. The less than concerned people in the film exemplify the human reaction. At one point in the film the male main character (can’t recall the name) leaves to get a drink because the girl drank all of the liquor he just bought. Once again a brutally honest film.

The last film, World of Glory, was the most unique film. It showed the lack of reaction to tragedy. In the beginning it displays the people being killed by asphyxiation from the exhaust. Then it goes to one of the characters that seem to be trying to get through life trying to not remember it. He displays where he lives and what he drives and so on. The ending is him being basically haunted by the screams of a little girl. It represents how people live with the consequences of being a by standard in tragedies and coping with what has happened.