This movie points out the faults of people as a collective, at least from a 1970s, American point of view. Through Jon's new porno job, we experience profit from voyeurism. Through Jon's next job in an interactive theatre troupe, creating an interactive experience to supposedly experience life as a black person (recorded), we watch white people be put through blatant violence and terror, and later applaud it before going on with their lives unchanged. Through this same lens, we also see this same demographic asked about their opinions on the topic of racism ("I don't care if your green, blue, yellow"), all while a shopkeeper is shot in the background, to no reaction. We also see a family encourage a shooting by their child in a hallway, which Jon reacts to by shooting his TV set. After a building is destroyed, no one cares about the death, rather the effects it has on their own lives. We're ignorant of violence and injustice, or we actively excuse it as radicalness... or we otherwise think of it inwardly. Violence and sex has cemented itself into society and no one is safe, nor do they care.
This movie points out the faults of people as a collective, at least from a 1970s, American point of view. Through Jon's new porno job, we experience profit from voyeurism. Through Jon's next job in an interactive theatre troupe, creating an interactive experience to supposedly experience life as a black person (recorded), we watch white people be put through blatant violence and terror, and later applaud it before going on with their lives unchanged. Through this same lens, we also see this same demographic asked about their opinions on the topic of racism ("I don't care if your green, blue, yellow"), all while a shopkeeper is shot in the background, to no reaction. We also see a family encourage a shooting by their child in a hallway, which Jon reacts to by shooting his TV set. After a building is destroyed, no one cares about the death, rather the effects it has on their own lives. We're ignorant of violence and injustice, or we actively excuse it as radicalness... or we otherwise think of it inwardly. Violence and sex has cemented itself into society and no one is safe, nor do they care.
