"(...) In The Tempest, Trinvulo's first thought upon coming across Caliban is that he could be put on exhibit in England: 'not a holyday fool there but would give a piece of silver...When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.(...)""(...) Shock can become familiar. Shock can wear off. Even if it doesn´t, one can not look. People have means to defend themselves against what is upsetting (...) This seems normal, that is, adaptive. As one can become habituated to horror in real life, one can become habituated to the horror of certain images."
"(...) and I remember when the evening news showed footage of the destruction of Vukovar, just a couple of hundred miles away, I thought to myself, 'Oh, how horrible,' and switched the channel (...) It's normal. It's human. Wherever people feel safe - this was her bitter, self-accusing point - they will be indifferent."
"(...) Its is felt that there is something morally wrong with the abstract of reality offered by photography; that one has no right to experience the suffering of others at a distance, denuded of its raw power (...) - the standing back from the agressiveness of the world which frees us for observation and for elective attention. But this is only to describe the function of the mind itself. (...) 'Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time'."
And after reading this book, i though: my school film project is not that bad! And Susan Sontag speak some of the ideas that ,we as group, wanted to have!!
So here it is:
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