Thursday, March 25, 2010
So desensitized
As part of an assignment for my Hebrew class I had to watch this movie about an African refugee in Israel. My teacher told us it was her favorite Hebrew movie she had seen so I had high expectations for it. A group of us watched it in the basement of the JFSB one evening and I couldn't believe what was in the movie. I felt like I was somehow desecrating BYU's building or something by watching it. I had to look down during two sexual scenes--one quite short, and the other for what seemed like a really long time (but was probably only a minute or so--so as to not see what was happening on the screen. The student in charge of getting the movie for us from our teacher and playing it was indecisive about whether to fastforward it or not. She said she thought "it doesn't show anything" but I couldn't believe that she could classify what was happening with people taking off their clothes and what not as not showing anything. I think she realized when it was too late that she should have fastforwarded the movie. In any case, I felt like my spirit was offended and I was surprised that a BYU teacher would have us watch this movie. I feel like I should talk to my teacher about it, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it. It made me realize more how our society is so accepting of such depictions and that people as a whole are so desensitized to sexual scenes and suggestions. It honestly makes me sad when I think about it.
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