week 11

I would just like to comment on the film we watched in our discussion sections this week about the invasion of privacy harbored by the common presence of security cameras in America. Since the film presents a rather elaborate skit played out by several characters through a public security monitor a student claimed this type of conveyance defeats the purpose of the artistic statement. Speculatively the statement could just be giving us an opportunity to look back at those watching us. I did not voice my opinion in class so I will give it now and disagree with that student. It does not really matter that this single monitor is accessible to the public because who knows how many hundreds of cameras are out there invisible to us. Even so, the monitors could be visible or they could be hidden, either way this film urges us to commentate on the factual and general presence of security camera in any case. It allows us to question the moral and ethical necessities of such an abundance of "security" and where the line should be drawn between safety and invasion of privacy.