“American Vandal” is a Netflix mockumentary, which attempts to recreate the style of true-crime documentaries, such as “Making a Murderer” or the Ted Bundy Tapes documentary. However, “American Vandal” simulates the genre by providing a fictional setting and scenario in the same format. I will be writing solely about the
Year: 2019
Netflix came out with the series “Narcos” in 2015 which showcases the life of Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar. The series goes through how Escobar came to be one of the richest men in the world. However, it romanticizes a world of violence and drugs. Young people today watch
In 1999, The Blair Witch Project became one of the highest-earning independent films of all time. It popularized the found-footage horror genre, created one of the first online viral marketing campaigns, and became an urban legend in its own right. However, while we’ve all come to accept that it was
Domestic violence, which includes physical and psychological violence, has been around for centuries and yet widespread movements to bring this issue to light have taken place only recently. Perhaps the earliest formal mechanism to protect people against domestic violence began in 1948, with the Declaration of Human Rights. Article 16
There is currently an ongoing controversy on Twitter happening after someone posted a video about a day ago regarding a beauty make up artist by the name Amy Malcedo for using a darker shade foundation than her skin tone. This sparked an outage from the Twitter community, particularly POC who
Prison is a corrupt system. Inmates are raped, beaten, often by the guards and staff at prison. It separates you from your family, leaves you in fear. When you get out, you have a criminal record, which makes it extremely hard to get a new life started. A lot of
In 2017, Ge Yulu, 27, a graduate with a Master’s degree in Experimental Art from China Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA), rose to fame in China because of one of his works of art: he had secretly named a road in Beijing after himself three years ago, and
I found this post while just going through twitter, and it really resonated with me, as it could just naturally disrupt someone’s walk through the neighborhood. Painted simply on the sidewalk, it brings to light the tragedy and violent crime that occurred in that space that one could be walking
“How illegal is it to vandalize a wall”, proposed by Banksy on his website which acquainted viewers to his Wall project, if the wall itself has been deemed unlawful by the International Court of Justice? However, the project had the overwhelming support of the Israeli public and was deemed legal
In 2000, there was an exhibition called ‘Helena’ created by Marco Evaristti. This exhibition put ten functioning blenders on the table, and each blender containing a live goldfish. The blenders were plugged in and if anyone press the yellow button, the goldfish will die. Therefore, people will decide the lives