Television Delivers People

The music in the background reminded me of something that would have been on Leave It to Beaver, where you have the perfect family with the perfect hair who all wear nice clothes and the mom wears lipstick and pearls while vacuuming. This is ironic, because the whole point of the video is to tell us that television is not perfect, and advertising it consuming us, which is completley true! But really, who ever thinks of their lives being controlled by what they watch on tv? With advertising schemes being shot at us left and right, whether it be from telelvision or billboards or magazine adds or whatever, all of our decisions are somehow guided by the advertising that we see every day. I think that what struck me most about the music is that it represents something safe, like having a perfect family. While the music should be warm and comforting, the words on the screen makes you think and realise how you are really living your life. For a video that could have potentially been incredibly boring, this one made me think much more than anything else we have watched in class this semester!