Brookes77, Zizek 2/19/09

In Zizecks reading, "Welcome to the Desert of the Real", scared me in a way because i have never thought of my reaction of the WTC towers that way before. When i first watched the clips on the news hours after it had happen, i was in 7th grade and i was shocked, scared, and extremely upset. I did think i had ever seen anything more terrible on the news or in movies. Yes i was young, and had not been very experienced with the news or movies, it still did not feel like reality. Yet as i look back, i had seen many other movies that inflict danger, pain and death. This caused my reaction of the event to be extremely upset, yet i had seen this before. Since this terrible event, the media is making us, as we learned in CMC 200 have a fear of everything. When Zizeck quotes " It is not reality entered our image: The image entered and shattered our reality", it really made this clear. Since the WTC towers were replayed over and over again on the news, it opened the door to Hollywood to produce more movies with the same amount or even more danger, death, pain and fear shown. Movies like Vantage Point gave me the same kind of fear as it did when i saw the clips of the WTC, and there are many more movies like this; showing terrorism and causing fear to all viewers. This is becoming a very bad thing for our society. It is actually as the reading said "shattering our reality". There are two sides to what i am trying to argue. First this overplaying of movies like this is causing everyone to fear everything, and second some of us are not taking the WTC disaster seriously enough now because of all these new movies that are being made. We are starting to not know what is real and what we should fear on the news and in movies and most importantly in real life. This is making it a scary reality.