Maggy's mind

Elephant : A Gus Van Sant movie 1) What struck you most in the film? What strucked me most in the film is that even if we know since the beggining who are the two shooters, I didn't felt hate or anger towards them. Firstly, I had compassion for Alex who's bullied. Then, when we are in his bedroom, we feel the empty and boring atmospphere that the director wants to recall. Even at the end, I don't dislike these evil characters who just seems bored. 2) What also impressed you? What I've found impressing is that there is no real, deep conversations in the movie. It is a very visual movie because non of the dialectical information that is given is really helpful for the understanding of the movie. 3) Did you find anything  more particularly upsetting ? At the middle of the movie, there's a scene where we see Alex playing piano and Eric playing a video game on his laptop. We see the shhoting game on full-screen where Eric shoots people from behind. It is a pret...

March For Our Lives March for our lives is an american movement who's mission is to  fight against weapons abuse , specially in schools. Since there has been a lot of school shootings through the decades in the USA, this movement wants to protect youth from this type of violence.  This movement aims for peace in a country where there is a " gun volence epidemic ", as they say. In order to achieve their mission, "March for our lives" has established a "peace plan", in wich there are made 6 bold steps to make a Safer America. Their many mottos include: "Never Again                                                                  "Protect Kids,Not Guns"                                         ...

Cultural appropiation: Where is the issue from? source: BBC Stories on YouTube   T his video illustrates cultural appropriation through festivals. In these ones, a lot of people take the opportunity to dress up differently. A lot of them choose to wear the traditional clothes of other countries, and mostly the one who were colonized by whites. This case is for a lot of persons, considered as cultural appropriation . Wether you think it's ridiculous or not, some people who's ancestral trades and cultures are represented with white people feels outraged by it. This idea of cultural appropriation can be related to the myth of the noble savage. As this myth has been idealized and even sexualized by white people, it is the same now with cultural appropriation, and colonized peoples are fighting against that. The same group of people who stole their culture and rights are now appropriating their esthetic way of dressing.  And you, what do you think about cultural appropri...

The myth of the Noble Savage   What is the myth of the Noble Savage?   The noble savage is a s tereotypical fictional  character who symbolize the notion of the indigene (= not civilized, therefore, not "corrupted" by civilization) consequently, he embodies the humanity's instinctive purity.  1776 performance of Thomas Southerne's Oroonoko.   Even if it has been mostly used in fiction and philosophy, it appeared considerably in anthropological researches.     Historical chronology The first employment of the notion of "noble savage" borned in an english poem. It was designed for a "wild beast", a man above of the others. It's Rousseau who took back the term to designate a black person in a racist way, to use it as a justification for slavery.   Explanation T he claim that Rousseau created the myth was made by one of the nineteenth century's most notorious racists to give weight to his belief in the notion of 'inferior' ra...