Study Task 3 - Images and Theory

1. Select and define important terms / concepts you have discovered through your reading. 

• Blame
• Suspicion
• Illusion
• Corruption
• Controversial
• rumour

2.

Suspicion.

This image is actually from the film suspicion. It demonstrates suspicion on the character heavily, by casting a dark shadow over him, hiding his face. It has the long staircase, with the light casting a skewed shadow. And the drink on the tray he carries is highlighted, as if to signify it, as though he might have tampered with the drink. 

But this is all suspicion, it is my mind conspiracizing against this man, due to some shadow, when he might be just carrying a perfectly harmless drink up the stairs.

Illusion

I feel this image could represent more than just illusion, it could also represent the illusion of society that a lot of conspiracies claim to be. This could represent the illusion of people, as the ‘illusion’ in this images focuses on the silhouette of a person. Which you could argue, is the representation of how people and our society has this air of illusion around it, falsities and lies shrouding the truth of our democracy.

Blame

Harley Quinn expressing her belief that society is to blame. I find this is a good example due to one it being an animated character expressing herself. And secondly it shows the need to blame others for the downfall, to find blame in our governmental system, to pass it on to the ‘them’ in our world. Not to hold the problem, and believe that we could be to blame.

3. Theorists.

I've not yet found several underpinning theorist, however image 1 and image 3 already come from films so this already gives them an audience, giving a sense of a community of people out there, who recognise these images. Which helps answer my question. 

People watch the same thing and talk about what might happen this is more than just predicting a plot it’s this will happen because this has happened already and he/she has an agenda and a secret story – things are not as they appear, there’s more to be told, there’s something out there= conspiracy theory. 

I do though have the ability to link Rob Brotherton the author to the book Suspicious Minds.