The underlying tone of paranoia in this film I think has gone a long with everything we have been talking about this semester. Paranoia was a common term in the 50's and 60's everyone everywhere was feeling... for everything, from the red scare to your next door neighbor painting his mailbox black, everything and anything spooked people. The difference about 70's paranoia then 50's and 60's was i feel the difference between fear of attack and devastation from another country to the fear of our own government for being secretive and hiding things from us and scandal. The scene in the film which I find to be the most interesting and the scene that clearly shows the tone of paranoia would have to be the scene when the two men meet at the parking lot in the complete dark. This scene pours out with paranoia because you can not see there faces, and it has a very heightened tone like at any minute someone is going to drive up and abduct them and we will never see them again! As a film student I not only feel the paranoia in this scene but I can see it as well because this is exactly the type of setting any director would use to convey paranoia or any time of danger. In my observation the media today deals with possibly high-level scandals by making it THE news to watch. It is all we hear or read about everywhere, completely becoming the attention holder of everyone just hanging on ever word until the scandal has been brought out in the open and we have moved on to the next big story. The difference between us now than as before in terms of how the media works is the sense that now we are used to scandal and being corrupted that it takes something huge for the media to even get our attention and to actually get our attention it's almost as if they must beat the story to death. The media is only interested in what their audience is interested in so they will keep digging and keep looking for the next big story always because that is really the only thing that gets the attention of the public.
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