Also, there was a haggard looking, violently irritating middle aged man seated diagonally to our left who clapped every five minutes. Loudly. Obnoxiously. He should have been tortured.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Field Trip
For all of you who didn't make the field trip...it was an interesting dialogue between the film maker and author of Standard Operating Procedure who were both being interrogated by a British person. All three had egos that could be felt from the back row. The author, Philip Gourevitch, articulated his argument much better than the over-weight Errol Morris who casually peppered his speech with pithy statements(questions) like "Now the question remains, was this a war on terror ...or a war of humiliation?" Not that 'war on terror' is a good description of whatever the fuck we're in Iraq for but I'm fairly certain we didn't invade an already turmoil ridden country in order to strip people of their steadily diminishing dignity. The Bush regime is stupid, not sadistic.
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i also enjoyed last night. what was interesting to me was the way in which the pictures were used. it was interesting to see the way in which the pictures had to play a specific role.
my favorite part, because i am interested in journalism, is the way in which the author talked about all if the different ways in which he had to describe what he was writing about. for example, the feed back that said that his book was "morally repugnant because it was not morally repugnant"
Yeah I realy enjoyed the trip last night as well, and i think it was because the three of them covered every single topic. It talked about what was behind the pictures, why they were taken, torture and if it works, dehumanization of the prisoners, geneva conventions, america;s foreign policy and a million more. So it really had something interesting for everyone and p.s I know that Isable hates the "big ego guys" and the loud clapper...but i thought they were hilarious and entertaining to watch.
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