My parents did not get to vote when they were my age. While Kissinger pranced around with dictators, inaugurating the lost decade of Latin America, the young lovers formed a quiet home and dutifully embraced their opportunity when democracy returned in 1983.
The Hollywood figures on this video are much different. As artists, they dissect from our reality and recreate it in video form, and at the same time what they throw our way shapes us, too. It's hard for me to see them as people, because even in their presumed honest message they carry traits similar to those they plant on the screen. (For an example, refer to Sarah Silverman who annoys the hell out of me despite all our similarities).
Anyway, register to vote, folks. It's an opportunity that not everyone gets.
Friday, October 3, 2008
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