Sunday, May 9, 2010

REaction to Taxi video

This documentary was at once, disturbing, informative, well put together and necessary. I watched the entire thing in one sitting with my headphones plugged in. I only came up for air once. Watching it was horrifying. Though I hated what I was seeing and what was slowly being unraveled in front of my eyes, I found it necessary and mandatory that this awareness and horror be presented to the greater public. I sat through the entire documentary with the hair on my arms standing straight up. In short, my reaction was disgust but in a way that information and action can help. My most poignant thought that I came away with concerns the levels of power and the trickle down to the actual source as apposed to the people receiving the message. The men in suits, the clean cut, well dressed men who run this country are the ones ok-ing the atrocities that happen in grimy, dusty, metal cages.

1 comment:

  1. This is really strong in terms of your reaction, but would have liked to see some dissecting of jorunalistic techniques

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