mirror & mirror

The field trip to Cinequest short film festival "Mirror, Mirror" was disappointing. "Regarding Sarah" was a good one but I doubt why the director put the old lady back to her decent life, recording was a way she found to enhance her life. For many others, I didn't see the quality of "being short".

The reading assignment in this week has more fun. It talks about Youtube phenemenon and the truth and the reliability of online videos. why the online video site grow so fast? The internet has the ability to conduct the flow of seduction works, because the net has no mirrors. The internet world has been solitude and isolated in the physical world, in the virtuel it facilitates seduction. When we broadcast ourselves, we show what we want to show, but the real me has been protected from the self-absece.

But can I say the mass media is more real than online youtubes? remember the videos to show killing soldiers in Iraq? Is a sniping seen on youtube more truthful than what the news agencies willing to show? what is truth? Is the news on TV programs are "real" truth? when truth is edited, produced, and narrated? People might enjoy Youtubes more than mass medias because they can watch people, and they can let people watch them. That's how we get the better of our curiousity.