G-love and Basketball

Getting right to the point, what we saw in class last Monday was really awkward to watch. I didn't know how to react to it. Why, because it was something I never thought I would ever see. The format was set in a little box that kept the action to what was going on in the screen. The first part of the film, where you only heard sound, was the most intriguing part of the whole film. I didn't know what to expect, I just heard running in sync. But as soon as the first 10 minute section ended, which felt like forever, i was sold that this isn't getting any better. Like Hamilton, I knew there wasn't going to be anything special or compelling if I waited for it. I really like the culture aspects that we did discuss in class. Were the girls directed to look at the camera, or cultural. They did it culturally, where the girls in the US, unless directed, would definitely sneak a peak at the camera. Culturally, we love being filmed, or completely hate it.
Diversity, the same uniforms, the same expressions, the stage in the background. We are watching a staged event, a event that is directed. There was no diversity, a ideal government proposition; everyone enjoys the same freedom, the same skills with no bigotry or racial slurs. Lockhart took something pretty familiar to the people in the US and put a different context behind it. The stage reminded me that it was not the way the real world is. Not every has the same ability and motions as the in-sync motions of the girls were. The part where the girls used basketballs, directed or not, was like a play; the girl dropped the ball-forgot a line-improvised. Don't take this paragraph seriously though, it's just a thought.