What does this have to do with power or axiom?

Zola 2022-01-24 08:05:11

In addition to the inspiring narrative technique of the film, the most impressive is the statement made by the host at the end of the film:

"The sick people in the crowd must be blamed on our over-developed civilized society, strangely catering to violence, and disrespect for life. These are all used by our government to implement self-defense as the doctrine to educate those How young people hurt and kill. The most popular things in today’s society are those cartoons, TV shows, and movies in newspapers. These things can create new meanings for crimes committed. Somehow a person can be on their own. When China’s civilization was shaken by the philosophy of violence, it remained silent. The so-called power is axiom. From this point of view, the crime of Charles Joseph Whitman is the crime of the entire society."

The logic is simple: "Society ignores the harm of violence" >> "Individuals are unable to resist the general environment and become insensitive" >> "The sick are born".

This is pretty beautiful, but the use of the word "crime" for "sick people" deliberately or unintentionally avoids some facts: reluctance to accept randomness, denial of antisocial illogicality, and inability to understand natural rebellion. And the possibility of being unable to be taught the day after tomorrow. The moderator still satisfies his own experience and rhetoric of "individuals in society".

In the first 4/5 of the film, the "sniper" is almost described as an AI. There is no blood, no emotion, no eating, no shit. At the end of the conversation, the front line turned and began to use the laws of human society to judge this AI from Texas. The "forgiveness" unilaterally declared by the "victim" at the end of the film is also funny. AI killing can also be called "being evil", what do you forgive?

So want to fucking reconcile? No fucking door.

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Extended Reading
  • Green 2022-01-24 08:05:11

    Why are real people moving when they appear on the camera? The gunfire is endless? -11/26/16 at MoMA

  • Tressa 2022-04-20 09:02:31

    In fact, as a documentary, there are very few things to talk about, and the perspective of the murderer is also missing, but thanks to the novel shooting method, the animation can indeed show the parts of this event that were not recorded on film. I like the soundtrack, the switching between animation and real people, especially the animation where Claire and her boyfriend got to know each other, a documentary about flowers

Tower quotes

  • John Fox: I remember looking at the Tower, of course, a lot. And from the Main Mall you can see there's a biblical line from the Bible. "Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free." I've thought about it. One of the truths I learned... Is that there are monsters that walk among us. There are people out there that think unthinkable thoughts and then do unthinkable things.

  • Walter Cronkite: The horror of these, the sick among us, must be found in the horror of our hyper-civilization. A strange pandering to violence, a disrespect for life, fostered in part by governments which, in pursuit of the doctrine of self-defense, teach their youth to kill and to maim. A society in which the most popular newspaper cartoon strips, television programs, and movies are those that can invent new means of perpetrating bodily harm. A people who somehow can remain silent while their own civilization seems to crumble under the force of the caveman's philosophy - that might makes right. It seems likely that Charles Joseph Whitman's crime was society's crime.