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Jun. 4th, 2006
is it live or is it memorex?
Jun. 4th, 2006 02:39 amIn Varvara, a few of the people in our group were making comments along the lines of - 'it feels like we're in a movie.'
I knew that they thought they were saying something positive, but it really irked me. I had trouble coming up with how to explain why, but my sister got it -- "It's like looking at a really amazing sunset and saying 'It looks like a picture!'"
Why are you stepping out of the experience itself that surrounds you to say its like some distorted representation of something vaguely related, but completely different?
On a slightly different level - kind of funny that Americans go into a small old European village and think they're in a movie, because I've had more than one non-American tell me that they know all about what the US and especially California is like because they've seen it in movies. So is your life like a movie? Which one?
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Also in England last year, young Europeans and English going off on everything that is wrong with the US and how we don't know it cuz our media is so bad, and I realize that they are all quoting 'Farenheit 911' and 'Supersize Me' and the like... yep American movies. Arrogance of youth partially. I also had a great conversation over there (UK not Bulgaria) with a woman who'd been a teenager in Bristol dating GIs during the war. She was very much more aware and realistic about realities of media and propaganda and that they certainly don't get the complete unvarnished truth handed to them either.
I knew that they thought they were saying something positive, but it really irked me. I had trouble coming up with how to explain why, but my sister got it -- "It's like looking at a really amazing sunset and saying 'It looks like a picture!'"
Why are you stepping out of the experience itself that surrounds you to say its like some distorted representation of something vaguely related, but completely different?
On a slightly different level - kind of funny that Americans go into a small old European village and think they're in a movie, because I've had more than one non-American tell me that they know all about what the US and especially California is like because they've seen it in movies. So is your life like a movie? Which one?
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Also in England last year, young Europeans and English going off on everything that is wrong with the US and how we don't know it cuz our media is so bad, and I realize that they are all quoting 'Farenheit 911' and 'Supersize Me' and the like... yep American movies. Arrogance of youth partially. I also had a great conversation over there (UK not Bulgaria) with a woman who'd been a teenager in Bristol dating GIs during the war. She was very much more aware and realistic about realities of media and propaganda and that they certainly don't get the complete unvarnished truth handed to them either.