Let’s just say I had a total Matrix moment during our FTC day talking about reality and portraying what was real and what reality really is. Maybe we are all just imagining this world and we are really being controlled by robots? Oh wait, that also feeds in to Fast, Cheap and Out of Control as well.
So is a movie reality? Is it free from bias? Free from the hands of a human since it is a machine recording it? A movie is reality. Well, it was. In my view, we see people, we see the settings, we see scenes. Maybe the scenes were set up, the clothing picked out on purpose, the acting rehearsed. It is still reality. We see actual people and nature. That was true up until CGI however. Movies are no longer reality and can’t be classified as such.
And movies are never free from bias. It is always capturing what the person standing behind the camera wants you to see. And yes, it is never free from humans. There is always someone pointing that camera somewhere. Not even the security tapes we talked about in class are free from human intervention. They were placed there to capture a certain area with a certain purpose.