Thursday, March 4, 2010

Weekly Reflection

3/1/10

Citizens monitor and maintain each other is panoptic. The control is now horizontal and not vertical where every citizen has the power to report a neighbor for any bad conduct. Everyone is watching each other instead of talking and coinciding with each other. There is a difference in being cast away and being quarantined by a community.

In Allen’s film Manhattan, the characters are being shaped by the city itself not the characters shaping Manhattan. The geography of New York City is a really fast pace version on L.A. Allen’s character is not able to leave New York City, he shows that it is part of him that he can’t leave behind to go live somewhere else. He barely made it out to go after the woman he loved.

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