Wednesday, January 22, 2014

In response too Morris' "Bodies of the Year"

Morris's arguments explain how people use and overuse there body in todays social media. Throughout the article he criticizes the importance of the body both the physically appealing nature of a beautiful body as well as the less attractive side of the spectrum. The body is an incredibly important part of society today and has always been, all be it never in the same fashion. I whole heartedly believe this to be true because no person can be explained without using there body; no one is going to be describing someone and say "Oh, she's the one with the mediocre ideas and talks about as much as an average person". its not going to happen because a persons body matters.A body tells a story; how you take care of your self, what kind of person you are, and the way you share or don't share your body can describe you as well.  


When I was reading this and noting all of the examples of how bodies were used throughout the current year, I thought of one other example however potentially a little out of date, Fat Amy. Fat Amy is a refreshing change of pace in that she isn't the stereotypical "Hot" actress and doesn't rely mainly on how she looks to get her role. She provides a genuinely funny attribute to a movie using her body as a sort of catalyst.

Towards the end he touches on how "Her" moved him because it used only a voice as an actor and the fact that they didn't overuse someones body as he seems to insinuate throughout his article, however I don't think it is 100% percent clear of this "overuse". In the movie they show the main actor having phone sex with some random women and they put a face to it, then later in the movie the OS and the main actor have "phone sex" and although it doesn't show this over use of the body, using something like sex forces your mind to wander, even if a body wasn't physically there the fact that they used sex is a use of the body.

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