10 Thousand Miles (film)
What did we see that surprised us?
The style of the movie and the plot were good, but not many of the elements in the movie actually ‘surprised’ me, because I have a father who travels often to these areas of the world, who’s told me about their situation, and I think their cultural background is more similar to that of Japan than that of the Western world.
What I felt was interesting was that the university students that appeared in the film that they mostly wanted just to have a family, and didn’t feel a great desire to travel. Most of them didn’t have the means to travel, but it was also that they didn’t have much motive to travel. In comparison to the allegory of ‘the frog in the well’, it seems that people are perfectly content staying ‘in the well’.
What was TOK about this?
The main idea of ‘the frog in the well’; having a limited perception/vision of the world, and going on a journey which stretches this perception was TOK. Each person came from a different background and experienced situations and saw what they had not known before. This gaining knowledge by aquaintance and learning about different ways of thinking is TOK. It was also interesting that Liam, the producer of the film, felt essentially that what the western media portrays of this part of the world, and what the ‘local’ Chinese media portrayed showed completely seperate images. From his first hand experience, he described as reality being somewhere in between, which I think is the case with most medias.
‘Politically Correct’
Political correctness is often mocked because of its extent that it becomes ludicrous. In the radio show that we listened to in class, the man mentioned ‘gaijin’, which means foreigner in Japanese. I think the separaration between what is and what is not is not always so clear, and the term ‘gaijin’ is a good example of this. It seems to me that in Japan because of the common use of this word, it is almost implanting a discrimatory notion in Japan, that people are either Japanese or not.
What did we see that surprised us?
The style of the movie and the plot were good, but not many of the elements in the movie actually ‘surprised’ me, because I have a father who travels often to these areas of the world, who’s told me about their situation, and I think their cultural background is more similar to that of Japan than that of the Western world.
What I felt was interesting was that the university students that appeared in the film that they mostly wanted just to have a family, and didn’t feel a great desire to travel. Most of them didn’t have the means to travel, but it was also that they didn’t have much motive to travel. In comparison to the allegory of ‘the frog in the well’, it seems that people are perfectly content staying ‘in the well’.
What was TOK about this?
The main idea of ‘the frog in the well’; having a limited perception/vision of the world, and going on a journey which stretches this perception was TOK. Each person came from a different background and experienced situations and saw what they had not known before. This gaining knowledge by aquaintance and learning about different ways of thinking is TOK. It was also interesting that Liam, the producer of the film, felt essentially that what the western media portrays of this part of the world, and what the ‘local’ Chinese media portrayed showed completely seperate images. From his first hand experience, he described as reality being somewhere in between, which I think is the case with most medias.
‘Politically Correct’
Political correctness is often mocked because of its extent that it becomes ludicrous. In the radio show that we listened to in class, the man mentioned ‘gaijin’, which means foreigner in Japanese. I think the separaration between what is and what is not is not always so clear, and the term ‘gaijin’ is a good example of this. It seems to me that in Japan because of the common use of this word, it is almost implanting a discrimatory notion in Japan, that people are either Japanese or not.
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