In his own way, Errol Morris is attempting in his films to bridge the gap between ourselves and “the other.”\u00c2\u00a0 In the above quote, the German philosopher Hegel is saying that once we understand that we are separate beings from everyone else, we try to resolve the alienation we feel by various types of synthesis.\u00c2\u00a0 Eye contact is one way which human beings are able to connect in spite of the physical space between two people.\u00c2\u00a0 As we talked about in class, when you make eye contact with someone, you are literally seeing yourself in their eyes.\u00c2\u00a0 Figuratively, eye contact allows you to get a glimpse of another persons inner thoughts and feelings as they simultaneously catch a glimpse of yours.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps you see in them a reflection of what you are feeling, a reflection of yourself.<\/p>\n
Errol Morris uses to Interrotron as one method of fording the separation between people.\u00c2\u00a0 He provides a more direct connection to the person that is being interviewed.\u00c2\u00a0 He creates a synthesis between himself, who\u00c2\u00a0his is interviewing, and\u00c2\u00a0his audience.\u00c2\u00a0But the interrotron is not the only method that Errol Morris uses to try to eliminate the other.\u00c2\u00a0 His whole movie making process seems to revolve around making connections–showing that we can find ourselves in everyone else, and in everything<\/em>else.\u00c2\u00a0 In Fast, Cheap, and Out of Control, Morris connects four completely unique people and ideas.\u00c2\u00a0 In his seemingly random images and pieces of the movie, Morris somehow ties it all together.\u00c2\u00a0 I think that he wants us to see that it doesn’t matter who we are–we can discover all we ever need to know about ourselves in everything else, all the otherness around us.\u00c2\u00a0 Or at least, I think he tries.\u00c2\u00a0 But the interrotron isn’t a perfect way to connect, just like all the random things in his movie don’t perfectly match.\u00c2\u00a0 But I guess the important thing is that he is trying, just like everyone else.<\/p>\n \u00c2\u00a0I might read this post later and disagree with everything I just said, because I do that sometimes–but there, that’s what’s in my head right now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In his own way, Errol Morris is attempting in his films to bridge the gap between ourselves and “the other.”\u00c2\u00a0 In the above quote, the German philosopher Hegel is saying that once we understand that we are separate beings from everyone else, we try to resolve the alienation we feel by various types of synthesis.\u00c2\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}