WEEK 6

For my blog post today, I will be talking about the video: Mad World Remix. In the video there was a very clear message that "we" as a society are addicted to our phones. The video depicts a small boy with wide eyes that is lost and looking for attention but everywhere he goes people are preoccupied by being on their cell phones. The background music played was called Mad World which again sets the sad tone of the world we live in where phones are overtaking us.  Also, the video coloring was in black and white to portray dark times and sadness.  There were some very powerful scenes one was with a girl who was up on the side of a large building getting ready to commit suicide by jumping and everyone below her was on their cell phones, as the girl jumped, no one tried to save her instead, they filmed her dropping to the ground and then went right back to being on their cell phone. In another scene the small boy was in a subway car and there was a larger man messing with a girl on the subway, the small boy fantasized about standing up to the man, but in reality he was afraid to while this was going on everyone in the subway car was on their cell phones, the boy was so upset that he couldn't help and just saw this scene around him of no one who cared. In one of the scenes toward the end ,all the people were walking off a cliff while on their phones, not watching where they are going just walking right off down into the ground. So clearly the message the video was exactly what the song was saying that it's a mad world and we are only focused on our phones and not what is going on around us.