Parisot – Bee Essay

We were told to watch this video story for class. While watching it, I suddenly realized that I didn’t care about it one way or the other. This video failed to illicit any emotional response from me at all. I’m not sure why; the concept of the recent bee die-offs is fascinating, it’s just this particular examination of it was boring.  I think that the angle on the whole foreclosure crisis is what got me. I’m really, really tired of hearing about it. A lot of the people affected by this, I don’t feel sorry for; they knowingly bought houses with shitty loan terms, many times buying huge houses they didn’t need. If anything, maybe this will convince people to live simpler.

As far as motion goes, with the exception of the bees there is very little. Most of the video consists of stand up interviews, or the beekeeper in question walking from one place to another. This subject matter would have been better as an audio slideshow, I think.

I think the only people that are going to want to see this are people who really love or hate bees. Maybe people in Florida interested in the housing foreclosure crisis, but I can’t imagine anyone else.

~ by supernovajesus on April 23, 2008.