Bright Eyes – “At the Bottom of Everything”
Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikRcAiCtKM&NR=1
Lyrics web page – http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/At-The-Bottom-Of-Everything-lyrics-Bright-Eyes/61CF0112CE2A36F148256F7F0010A9C0
I choose this video because it has strong imagery. I definitely feel like it appeals to Pathos as must music videos do. It begins with woman on an airplane flying to meet her fiance somewhere….she is sitting next to man she doesn’t know and is trying to make small talk and failing. The airplane starts to fail and she is scared and asked the man where they are going and he tells her they are going to a birthday party. I assume in attempt to calm her. This is when the music starts…
Basically the lyrics have to do with the whole of society, the traditions and trends that rule us all, how we feel we need to blend into the whole, mass majority rather then be ourselves. I feel like this is a good appeal to pathos because I think we have all been there…where we feel like we must do (or not do something) because society may frown upon it. I feel like the only downfall to this video is the fact that the artists lyrics sometime become too personal that they become less translatable to a large group.
My next video comes from a very good indie/philosophical film called “Waking Life”
Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDWEkzaBULQ
The dialogue of the full scene – http://strivinglife.com/words/post/Waking-Life-Chapter-14—Ants.aspx
This video is talking about human communication. The overtones of being an “ant” and meeting people, passing glancing and never actually speaking to one another….the video is a very shortened version so this may be a problem but it does appeal to logos. There is this logic that says we shouldn’t talk to strangers but why not? sometimes the people you have the most in common with, the most interesting people are the people you ignore daily, walk past them, or commit to the terrible traditions of ‘small talk’
My final video option is…
is a speech given by one of my personal favorite politicians Denis Kucinich
Video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lv0smG7ptcM
He is speaking about the war in Iraq and how misleading the Bush administration has been about where the money of America is going. It is trying to appeal to logos as it is only logical to vote democrat as the war in Iraq is only hurting our economy and thus hurting the lower middle class families. I feel like this speech would yield lots of information to write about but worry about the how biased the speaker is…
