In class today, Professor O’Malley showed us a short clip of the movie Saving Private Ryan. He had said that there is nothing realistic about this movie. It conveys impossible scenarios that make them seem real. It shows you throughout the movie perspectives of different characters. At one moment you could be someone who was dying, the next you could be a NAZI, etc. It is unrealistic to be more than one person at a time or even be in more than one place. This technique is called parallel editing. It gives you a real feeling of emotion and power and makes you think about the world and yourself in different ways. O’Malley then asked the class the question of “Do movies imitate the way we have always thought?” We have been retrained to think by the narrative art forms of movies. The next topic brought up O’Malley started with “In 1776, slavery was common and so was indentured servitude. Why can’t I own one of you now?” No one in the class could answer that question. Yes it is against the law but that’s not the only answer. It is because modern people have a sense of divided self. For example, you have a job at Walmart, hate it, but still continue to work there. You cannot be owned but you decide to do things on your own. Modern technology is getting rid of that self-concept.