Jimmy Robson - Film Clip Series

The series of film clips we watched in class all had very interesting messages to them. I particularly enjoyed the first clip, appropriately titled "Bunny." "Bunny" seemed to be mainly about the peaceful nature of death, suggesting that it is not something to be feared. The bug that pesters Bunny from the beginning seems to represent an angel, trying to let Bunny know that it is time to leave this life. However, Bunny is not ready to go, so he fights the moth. The more the moth tries to get Bunny to accept his fate, the more Bunny fights back. In the end, Bunny is attracted to the light that the Moth is offering and, in following the moth into the light, is ushered into a new life. The short ends with the portrait of Bunny and his wife becoming animated and moving together, symbolizing that Bunny has been reunited with his wife and that the afterlife is a place peace and happiness.

The other clip that I thought was very interesting in this series was Pink Floyd's "The Wall", particularly the segment in which the school children are being processed through a factory so that they become completely uniform while Pink Floyd's song "Another Brick in the Wall" plays over it. This imagery, paired with the lyric in the song that says "we don't need no thought control" makes me think of the popular view of religion as the opiate of the masses. In the scene the kids are are put through machines that turn them into faceless, thoughtless beings with no identity. Many people view religious followers as a large group with no real identity. I do not agree with this view, as I believe that religion can contribute to identity. As a Christian, I consider part of my identity as a follower of Christ. However, I am still an individual, just as God made me, who associates with people who also find their identity in the same place. In reality, I have a very rich identity rather than no identity at all.