Submission

So, I was reading up on Dogme 95 thinking about how absolutely boring a film like that must be to watch, and I was going to blog about it until I read Jillian's blog. Jillian wrote about Dogme 95, so I will refer all of you out in blog world to Jillian's blog if you would like to know more--I'm sure she did a much better job of articulating the ins and outs of this film making style than I could have ever done. Good job Jillian! Next step--try to find another movement of film to blog about, so this didn't work all too well because wikipedia writers didn't have the description of these movements in a language I could understand, so... here I am...(sitting at computer, waiting for idea, got one!)

Okay, so over the summer I was watching this news program thing like Dateline or 20/20 and I saw this woman being interviewed about a film she made called Submission. Maybe you have heard about it. It was a highly controversial film that was thought up by a Dutch woman who was a representative in the Lower House of the Netherlands parliament. Another important fact about this woman is that she, at one time, was Muslim. The film essentially artistically portrayed how the Qur'an oppresses Muslim women in her opinion. It shows a woman who has been beaten and raped on the back drop of passages out of the Qur'an. The director of the film, a man named Theo van Gogh was eventually stabbed by an extremist who was upset about the film.

All of this to say that it is amazing the impact films can have on people. I would be curios to actually watch the film to see if the message was the troubling part about the film or if it was the way in which the story was told. Rudd said in class that sometimes or a lot of times what has the greatest effect on the audience is not the message but the method of communicating the message...so there it is.