Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Strawberry Fields & Visual Rhetoric

In this video, some of the statements that are being made are the tragedy of war, the consequences of drug use, and the difficulty of art. It also shows how the world is quickly changing and how it can be seen as a bad thing by different people.

The strawberries that were illustrated in the video can be symbolisms of the blood and horror of the Vietnam War. The way the character dropped the strawberries into the bucket of paint was the same way that the bombs were dropped on Vietnam. Also, he found such difficulty in creating his art work, and it showed how hard and daunting the task could be. Lastly, his frustration with the girl bringing a new television into his house shows the pessimism he has about the world changing into a more technologically-charged environment.

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