It is officially Fall season and although the weather hasn't changed the TV channel listings have. All the great fall shows are back like How To Get Away With Murder, Scandal, and Flash. I have had a lot of opportunity to dissect tv shows unintentionally I've found myself paying attention to the way the camera is shifting to show certain types of emotions and or give us an idea of what the character is thinking. I was watching the different sounds that playing in the background more intently and asking myself what was the director trying to convey by doing this a lot and I'm not not enjoying the shows I'm watching any less, but I'm a thinking more critically.
So we watched Freaks and Geeks in class and I've watched this show before and made note of certain things about the characters in the past. However, I've never noticed how there could be a different leader or passive leaders amongst a group. I've also never thought about how certain cultural ideas are present in our society and how they effected the way we interact with each other. After looking at that episode through a Marxist lens, I found the most interesting character to be the mother. The way she was battling with her family to continue being traditional and not grow up was very interesting.
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