Sunday, March 7, 2010

lets think of the whole story

In the documentery Stranger With a Camera it goes over many of the differences, similaritys and focuses that are strongly felt and put out into the community. Feelings that almost seem like they shouldn feel something completly different, but the oppions and comments that are said go a completly different direction then what seems like it should be implied.
This story starts with a top producer, Hugh O' Conner, he was on the Film board of Canada and he was working on a documentry. He was working on an IMAx documentry and he elived that soncia change would result from the camera. He felt that by choosing the Kentucky Application region it would say what is wrong with the American dream, but to many of the folk that lived around there they did like what this idea presented, espeally Horbert Ison. Ison felt that O' Conner was an outsider and that by taking these pictures and shots that would "make fun of their family and of their history."(stranger with a camera; Richard Black). Hugh O' Conner was filiming one of the workers and his child, when Horbert popped out and shot O' Conner in the chest killing him. This one picture, the last picture that he took before he died, inspired another thought from what O'conner and Horbert thought. Mason Eldrich, the minor that was in the picture with his daughter, thought that this picture could show something new intirely. He tells us that he thought, "it was not trying to portray nothing...I think it ws for a good cause. I thought they would get some factories i here you see, to where people could get differetn jobs besides working in the coal mines." Horbert did go to trail over this and he ended up going to jail for it, but he got his time shortened and he got out after only a year. I dont know if this is something that i fully agree with because he still killed a man and its still considered murder. He really had no reason to kill him or a real motive then the reason that he didnt like what he was doing. But is this really a reason?
Even though what these pictures portray is huge many different people use it in different contxts. For example,the author of the paper "The mountain Eagle Weekly, Pat Gish, informed us that, " we did not use embaresssing situations in fron of their neighbors" in their paper. They wanted to respect them and they found that anyway they could to make themm feel better about them selves would be good. I very much agree with this because if they are able to pick up a paper that is in their community and see so much more than pictures that could feel embaressin to their neighbor or even to them themselves dosnt really help them but give them a deep troubling anger inside of them to think that this is really what the rest of the world sees them as, and its not the full truth and they will judge on what they see, which isnt the full story.
Overall, there are so many thoughts, feelings and words that can be and will be said in the fight for this story and its an interessting one, becasue of what it says and the meassage tht you can get outa it.
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