Thoughtful: Blog by Chiko-Dhire

 It is very ironic that the most powerful and important tools most often possess destructive capabilities too, just as today’s media has made it easy for misinformation and other problems to spread easily in society. Just like fire, I believe the benefits social media possesses far outweigh its consequences and therefore we should not be afraid of it but embrace it into our daily routines and be intentional about how we use it. We should prevent censorship from private companies and fight for personalized algorithms that enable us to access the specific information we want. We should welcome the evolution of journalism into a more dynamic and accessible digital form. For the first time ever in the history of humanity, storytelling has been simplified and made unimaginably efficient, to suit an individual’s needs and this makes social media an essential service that we must protect and continuously mold to satisfy our desires. One could go surfing in Slovakia and not have to wait to...

Hitchcock's Rope film is about two friends who perform a murder to satisfy their belief of possesing superior intellectual capabilities. After having strangled their friend and hiding him in a box, they prepare the same box as the dinner table and have their friends they have invited come over to eat on it, all of them being oblivious of the devilish act. Their objective in inviting friends over is to metaphorically hang the portrait they have painted, they regard their murder an artful act and this dinner is a celebration of that. This paper will be an analysis of a fraction of a scene from 38:28 to 40:28. This scene is important because it summarizes everything that happens in the film and also gives a flash of the characters and their roles and relationships to the deceased David. Rope is primarily made up of long takes and this scene is also one of them, that makes the continuity in this scene only depend on the camera zooming in or out. This becomes particularly useful in scen...