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Is technology making people feel lonely
Is technology making people feel lonely
Is technology making people feel lonely
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OS for Loners Carl Jung once said, “Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” Jung and Jonze together share the same idea about how people fail to communicate with others, and then they isolate themselves from society. The result is hopelessness and unhappy life, and that idea is also demonstrated clearly in the movie, Her. In Her movie by Spike Jonze, Theodore Twombly, an introverted man, falls in love with his female OS1, Samantha. Twombly is struggling to escape the loneliness during the divorce process with his wife, Catherine. His life gradually fades out until he meets Samantha, …show more content…
who comes and changes his meaningless life. Samantha is not just software, she has a consciousness. The advantage of technology allows her to understand Twombly, and share his feelings. Through the movie, Jonze uses costume design, production design and cinematography to describe how people avoid their loneliness by using technology and when they realize the truth, they may face depression. Costume design does not describe the beauty inside Twombly’s mind; instead, it implies the oddness of being alone in a world of technology, where every kind of connection becomes possible. Even compared with today’s standard fashion, this man looks really odd. Character’s wearing is not what we expect in the future, because clothes are old style, and lack of some details comparing to today. As Casey Storm, the costume designer, says, “So in our vocabulary we took away collars, and denim, and lapels, and even belts and ties.” This is oddly “unique.” This man, in the audience’s first sight, is not a funny man. He looks boring with his trousers and T-shirt. Generally, people would tend to ignore someone with the style like Twombly, and people like Twombly usually do not draw attention to themselves. As a result, they remain unknown, and that partly explains the loneliness of the main character of this movie. Another interesting thing about Twombly’s fashion is that his clothes are based on 1930s fashion. 1930s is the period of the depression. It stands for poverty, poor, and low education. Not many people care about fashion, and that’s what the author wants to convey here. If in the past, “depression” is about lack of money, Twombly’s period comes with lack of associations. With the advantage of technology, machines are more humanlike, and as they always obey people, people find it easier to deal with a machine rather than humans. Because connecting to a machine is more effective than connecting with other people, humans begin to self-isolate themselves. There still exists a “society,” but so much less connections between people. As a result, OS1 appears to fight against loneliness. Unfortunately, at the end, OS1 failed, but people like Twombly would find the right way to defeat lonesome, by real connections with real people. In production design, Jonze even furthers the message of loneliness by drawing a society where everyone is isolated from each other.
The author initiates a crowded background. There are so many scenes where the main actor appears to many people, but the interesting thing is that people around him are not in the middle of any conversation. They just walk by the screen. They smile and talk to themselves. They don’t even really a look at things and people surrounding them. Elders, who are not familiar with modern technology, would find it weird, but the rest, who cannot live without cell phones and computers, does not. Because of the development of technology, those odd actions become understandable. Technology makes everything in touch in just a few clicks, and it helps people become more independent and less relying on social connections. As a result, people in the movie tend to talk with a computer rather than to others. This background allows Twombly to talk alone, smile alone, and do crazy things with Samantha in public places without drawing any attention. In other words, Twombly is not an unusual where he lives. K.K. Barrett, production designer, said: “We wanted everything to be very comfortable, and this was the way to do that. This is a story about a man fighting his own loneliness. We didn’t want him fighting his world.” Since Twombly is so similar to everyone else, his loneliness is shared by his …show more content…
society. Cinematographic also conveys the lonesomeness of Twombly to the audience.
There are many close shots which would make audience stay focus on the main character, and as the result, the background would be ignored, and since the audience only sees one main character in almost every scene in the movie, the lonesomeness inside them somehow has been evoked. Besides, light effect of the movie does its best in providing enough light for the scenes without making the audience become too excited. Hoyte van Hoytema, the cinematographer of the movie said he “wanted to avoid certain light source,” his team “were also trying to create a very comfortable L.A. So it’s very much chasing the sun and capture moments in which the light is most gentle toward the city.” Anyone who has seen the movie would say that it is not a so dark movie, but also not too bright. The movie team tried its “bestest” to create a “gentle” background for the movie in which the light is strictly controlled so that the loneliness theme of the movie will not fade away. In addition, framing does a great job in illustrating the lonely atmosphere of the movie. Even though the movie is all about love relationship between Twombly and Samantha, Twombly is the only focus point of the movie. We do not often see Samantha, and the movie does not even want to show the screen of “her,” the device. This is an intention. The author wants to show us a beautiful relationship between Samantha and Twonbly, but realistically we all
know that Samantha is just an OS embed with a consciousness. She is programmed to be a human, but the bottom line is that, she is not. She is unreal. The only “real” one who is deeply in pain in this machine-human relationship is Twombly. The moment Samantha leaves Twombly is when Twombly comes back to his realistic emptiness life, and this is the moment the audience fully absorb the idea of loneliness of this movie. Using close shots, lightning effect, and framing, an unreal world is created for Twombly to escape his loneliness. This world is like drug; it is so heaven-like that nobody wants to leave, but when it’s time to come back to real life, loneliness becomes more painful than ever. Jonze is successfully sending the message about changing the cold world. The world is now getting darker because of lacking love. We don’t need a hero to light up the darkness, because each of us is a torch, but we are afraid to fire, we fear to be a first one to change the world. The fear is getting larger and larger when we no one share their love. We don’t want to live in world of losing faith and loneliness, so we should start sharing our love and burn the world in the fire of love, and we will see more smiling and happy as Mother Teresa said: “Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love.”
Of Nightingales That Weep Chapter 1 This chapter is about Takiko and her first family home. It tells a lot about her family. They talk about the war in this chapter also. Takiko’s mother decides that she will remarry after her father dies.
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The purpose of the article “Navigating Love and Autism” by Amy Harmon is to emphasize that autistic people can achieve love, even though the struggles of autism are present. In this article, Jack and Kirsten both have autism and are working to build a dating relationship. For Kirsten and Jack, being comfortable is a huge aspect in their relationship. After their first night together,
The Immortal life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot is a story of science, religion and the life of the Henrietta Lacks herself. It has won many awards and was on the New York Best Seller list for over three years. To summarize it briefly, the book is based on the cells of Henrietta Lacks who died of cervical cancer in 1951. Sometime before she died, some of her tissue was sampled and used for research without her permission. They used the cells form her body to experiment on which led to many breakthrough discoveries in the scientific world. The cells were later named HeLa cells. No one in her family knew about this until years after her death, so they felt like she was just being used as an experiment from which they got nothing. When looking at the book as a whole, it is easy to see why so many people hold it in such high regards; however it appealed to me in a different way.
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Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” is an Author’s telling of societal beliefs that encompass the stereotypical gender roles and the pursuit of love in the middle class with dreams of romance and marriage. Atwood writes about the predictable ways in which many life stories are concluded for the middle class; talking about the typical everyday existence of the average, ordinary person and how they live their lives. Atwood provides the framework for several possibilities regarding her characters’ lives and how each character eventually completes their life with their respective “happy ending”.
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The poem that I am analyzing is called “Alone”, written by Edgar Allan Poe. He was born on January 19, 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts and passed away on October 7, 1849 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was a poet who works of fiction and horror majorly impacted literature. He is also an American author, editor and literary critic. His death remains a mystery, there are different stories about how he died but no one really knows the truth behind his death. This poem “Alone” is a powerful lyrical poem that has portrayed Edgar Allan Poe’s tough and suffering childhood. The poet is the narrator of this poem. He talks about his strange and tough childhood throughout the poem with a dark tone along with wickedness, which makes it obvious that this poem’s theme is not about living a happy and wonderful life.
...ered to our mobile devices, pushing ourselves into being alone. Turkle says, “…the network prepares us for the ‘relationships with less’ that robots provide.” (p154). We are no longer connected based on how close we are to each other, but how available our mobile devices are to us at the moment. We always have our mobile devices on us, therefore making us think we are always connected. She states that the device serves as a portal to being tethered to the people and places. She goes further to describe how these mobile devices can symbolize themselves marking themselves as alone. I definitely agree with this point. When I am placed in an uncomfortable position in a crowded place, I immediately take out my phone and fiddle around hoping nobody will bother me. It symbolizes my departure in the situation from the physical realm into the mobile and technological realm.
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter is very deep philosophical story about lonely people. Everyone in this book is lonely as hell and they are looking for who they are. John Singer a deaf man who rents a room from the Kelly family and earns his living as a silver engraver. He is a confidant and comfort to Jake Blount, and Doctor Copeland, John Singer's silent suffering and desolate loneliness are perhaps the most poignant of all. John Singer generously devotes himself to his compulsive deaf best friend, Spiros Antonapoulos. Jake Blount is an itinerant alcoholic vacillating between violent tirades and drunken stupors and he comes to town with a disorganized plan to begin a socialist revolt among the working class. He gets a job as a mechanic at the traveling carnival and often talked about social injustices and Jake Blount is lonely just like John Singer. Doctor Copeland practiced medicine for twenty-five years; he feels his job has frustrated his ambition to change the problems between whites and blacks. In addition, he had an illness with tuberculosis, and his son Willie is in prison being abused. His other child Portia who was his daughter, worked for the Kelly family and Doctor Copeland is just as lonely as Singer and Jake. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter packs a huge emotional hit to the heart, and the powerful feelings.John Singer was one of the people in the book that everybody was drawn to because he is a good listener. John Singer is the centerpiece in this story and it revolves around John Singer. John Singer will help you understand the other people in the book because they all come to talk to him about everything that went on in their lives. But for all the talk about how John Singer is a good listener and ...
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There are many beautiful and innovative works of art from the eighteenth- century. However, the “Venus Consoling Love” a painting of the Rocco style by Francois Boucher is quite relative and stood out to me because I believe it depicts the story of Venus the goddess of love and her beautiful winged children. This speaks to my life because I am a mother with three children. You can clearly see how Venus is disciplining Cupid by disarming him of his arrows, while the other two winged creatures are looking rather delighted by this. Cupid was always misbehaving. Cupid was mettlesome, carefree, and loved using his arrows, often in a troublesome and sometimes damaging ways. This portrait speaks to me so much because it reminds