Thursday, March 4, 2010
Blog Post #2
This week we had an in-class discussion about subliminal messages. These messages are signs or messages that are in our presence but not consciously recognized by us. It's weird not-knowing that something is in plain sight but yet you can't see it because it blends in with the surroundings. This subject, subliminal messages, reminded me of the Disney movies and their sexual subliminal messages. For the longest time I didn't know that they would throw those purvirted scenes in there, and now that people have pointed them out to me and then I look back and watch the movie, those things are right in plain sight. It seems when I think or watch those movies, I only think about those parts because it is so weird, but yet now so obvious to me.
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I'd disagree in that like the books says, sometimes we perceive things how we're TOLD how to perceive them. These perceptions aren't necessarily intended to be inferred as such, making most of them not cases of "subliminal messages".
ReplyDeleteBesides, if they were truly cases of "subliminal messaging" (what could a phallic spire on a castle possibly try to impart upon our subconscious?), we wouldn't consciously notice them. And gossip about them.
This is not to say that Disney is a wonderful, white-laced company that has no skeletons in their closets.
Also, Snopes.
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/films.asp