Monday, October 22, 2007

Negative imagery

today in class we watched most of a movie called faces of the enemy. i just wanted to point out a few things that i thought very interesting.
  • The murderer was talking about how the country did not get the way it was without someone working toward it. does anyone think that is one of the parts which relates to the current day?
  • the notion of all the artists studying at the same school of art makes some sense in that they are all thinking along the same lines of dehumanizing the enemy. plus they all see each others images and are probably affected by them in terms of their art.
  • the idea that the images make it really hard to pull back and try for peace makes sense because each side by that point veiws the other by the images they have produced and not as humans.

these are just a few things i wanted to comment on that the movie mentions.

2 comments:

Nikki said...

i didn't quite understand what you meant by your second and third points that you listed. could you please elaborate?? what i am getting from them is that people that go to the same art school get the same ideas and therefor all people that go to an art school that teaches about dehumanizing the enemy will all have similar art. but i get the feeling that this was not what you meant. please explain this.
*~nikki~*

Leanne said...

the third point was one mentioned in the movie. my second point goes off of somthing else mentioned in the movie. the narrator was talking about the similarities between the negative images generated by the different countries. basically i'm saying that it makes sense for there to be similarities because the artists all think of the same generic monster images to use. and they see each others in the papers or where ever they are being displayed. it is bound to affect their drawings.