I’m an ESL teacher. I was having a conversation with one of my students about actors and movies a few years ago. It was a memorable conversation. I had asked her if she’d seen some movie that’d become popular with the students. She replied that she’d never been to a movie because she doesn’t like live action movies. When I asked why she explained that she believed that acting is the highest form of lying. She elaborated. She thought that if we all get used to seeing lies we won’t know how to tell the difference between lie and truth. She talked about how movie stars usually ended up being exposed as criminals or embroiled in scandals. - There really is no substitute for the mind of a child. Clarity of vision perhaps? - We argued playfully about it as a class that day but in the wake of all these scandals and they things, it has come to mind ringing as true.
The TV/ it Screen really is the worst. It is definitely a passive programming device. ... and I mean, if hi I about what has to take place psychologically for one to maintain a role or character for months while filming a movie. Now repeat that over and over. These minds and bodies barely have enough room for one. I’d imagine that a lot of the dark and twisted things would that average people have to wrestle with and sort out throughout their lives gets pushed to the back or even mislabeled as belonging to one of their fictitious characters. I’m suddenly reminded of episodes like Christian Bale, David Hasslehoff, Charlie Sheen, etc - it just seems like, when there’s a break in the exterior of these people, This nasty toxic sludge bursts forth as if some kind of damn has broken. They’re able to scrape it all up and duck tape the wall back temporarily, but eventually too many people have witnessed it for there to be any more pretending.
Spacey’s bullshit coming out/deflection is just another botched duck taping of his secret double life as a predator lacking any kind of self reflection or accountability.
She thought that if we all get used to seeing lies we won’t know how to tell the difference between lie and truth.
I will say this; watching Hollywood actors portray villains, murderers, drug addicts and so forth has to have had some affect on the average person’s understanding of evil. In real life, there is often something visibly wrong with evil people (usually it’s in their eyes). Actors are all pretty nice people, and they thus lack all the other tells. People watching lose that entire dimension of understanding, and I think it fills the ability to recognize it in real life.
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anotherdream ago
I’m an ESL teacher. I was having a conversation with one of my students about actors and movies a few years ago. It was a memorable conversation. I had asked her if she’d seen some movie that’d become popular with the students. She replied that she’d never been to a movie because she doesn’t like live action movies. When I asked why she explained that she believed that acting is the highest form of lying. She elaborated. She thought that if we all get used to seeing lies we won’t know how to tell the difference between lie and truth. She talked about how movie stars usually ended up being exposed as criminals or embroiled in scandals. - There really is no substitute for the mind of a child. Clarity of vision perhaps? - We argued playfully about it as a class that day but in the wake of all these scandals and they things, it has come to mind ringing as true.
The TV/ it Screen really is the worst. It is definitely a passive programming device. ... and I mean, if hi I about what has to take place psychologically for one to maintain a role or character for months while filming a movie. Now repeat that over and over. These minds and bodies barely have enough room for one. I’d imagine that a lot of the dark and twisted things would that average people have to wrestle with and sort out throughout their lives gets pushed to the back or even mislabeled as belonging to one of their fictitious characters. I’m suddenly reminded of episodes like Christian Bale, David Hasslehoff, Charlie Sheen, etc - it just seems like, when there’s a break in the exterior of these people, This nasty toxic sludge bursts forth as if some kind of damn has broken. They’re able to scrape it all up and duck tape the wall back temporarily, but eventually too many people have witnessed it for there to be any more pretending.
Spacey’s bullshit coming out/deflection is just another botched duck taping of his secret double life as a predator lacking any kind of self reflection or accountability.
tholinz ago
I will say this; watching Hollywood actors portray villains, murderers, drug addicts and so forth has to have had some affect on the average person’s understanding of evil. In real life, there is often something visibly wrong with evil people (usually it’s in their eyes). Actors are all pretty nice people, and they thus lack all the other tells. People watching lose that entire dimension of understanding, and I think it fills the ability to recognize it in real life.