BVA year2 blog 9

Political film
The question that I chose for essay assignment is about discussing if art/design has an obligation to work for political and social change. In this blog, I am going to talk about how film art reflect political issues in human being society. There is a basic concept of art from Wikipedia:“It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music, literature, film, photography, sculpture, and paintings. The meaning of art is explored in branch of philosophy known as aesthetics, whereas disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and psychology analyze its relationship with humans and generation. ”This is a pretty microscopical explanation, but it clearly tells people that no matter how artists change their art form or invent new media to create new context of art, they still cannot separate art from human life and the society they living in.

Motion image media is everywhere in modern society. And watching film has become the most commonentertainmentfor people. Many directors use film as a tool to reflect political thoughts and human social life. Therefore, except newspaper and TV shows, film already became a common media for people to realize some social issues. But the difference is- film doesn’t tell political issues directly to audience, film usually saying something deeper through narrative and art skills. For example, a comedy movie called “Burn after reading” that fully reflect the relationship between ordinary citizen’s life and high-ranking officials. I like the idea how directors use some people’s moral consciousness to link people of different kinds in society. Director uses a satirical tone to describe the bureaucratic evil practice and what the government has done for this city. Like they try to remove some state secrets through hunting good people.“If a leader sets a bad example, it will be followed by his subordinates.” In common life of average citizens there are also some secrets that they can’t tell to other people like unfaithfulness between husband and wife. However, they also use abnormal methods to settle problems.

Through watching this kind of movies, people can take the cue and enlightenment of their life. This kind of political movie tells citizens’ common life dramatically, and this can show us what our society and the environment we living in looks like or people have to be responsible for their own decisions in their life.