Brian O'Connor came to visit us last class period and everything he said was very interesting. I thought his work was great and I feel as if I learned a lot. In No Place To Go, O'Connor trapped the images of poverty-stricken families in black and white. The film was very empathetic towards them and made the viewer feel as if they were really there. It made me want to go out and help the poor.
The question of cultural authenticity is whether or not someone outside a culture can make a good documentary about a different culture. I think it depends. If someone were to live in the culture and shoot every angle of it and make it unbiased, it could work out well. But if someone outside the culture didn't know the norms or the way things are done, certain aspects could be left out or not acknowledged and that would not be a good thing.
Information poverty, where people don't know the facts, is a sad occurrence around the world. Everyone should be well-educated on everything in life, otherwise they really don't anything. Experience is the key. I wait tables part-time and we always say that people should have to work in a restaurant at least once in their lifetime. It's hard work and no one seems to understand unless they have worked for a restaurant before.
I thought it was interesting when Mr. O'Connor showed us Horse Pulling and he got different reactions from different areas in the United States. 80% of the people in California and other states said the film made them claustrophobic. But in New Hampshire (where it was filmed) no one said that. It just shows that where you live and what culture you come from makes up your opinion on a lot of things in life.
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