Recently my
friends and I had a meeting, because of our social experiment that we want to
conduct. It was kind of brainstorming. We exchange together some ideas and
thought about social problems that we should introduce in the experiment. We
spent a few hours discussing our further plans and we got to some conclusions.
Firstly we decided who is who in this project, because there must be actors,
camera operator and someone how is going to take care of the technical side of
this experiment, someone how will be able to put all the scenes together and
create one compact movie. The purpose of this experiment is to see how society
will react on some issues of global importance if they react at all. But
what about the scenes that result from our brainstorming? Firstly we decided to
raise an issue of intimate partner abuse, with a scene of two people fighting
with each other (a woman and a man) and reactions of the society, because we
are going to film it in public. Then we thought
about problem of poverty and homeless people. How society will react for a
homeless one if he says he needs money for drugs and alcohol and what reaction
will be if he says that he needs money for food or clothes. Another problem
that we want to address is about old people and how unpunished they feel
because of their age. There are some situations when there is someone that
feels worse than the old man, but for him this kind of situation can’t happen.
What we want to do is to see if an old man or woman will be able to move over
for a young, pregnant lady that feels dizzy. I was a witness of this kind of
situation and what I saw was terrible. The old man started to shout on a poor
lady and he was screaming that a youngster like her shouldn’t talk like this to
him. Then the woman felt on the ground because she lost her consciousness and
suddenly old man became gentle and started to apologize her.
I believe
that it is enough for now and the only thing that we have to do is to film it.
We are waiting for a better weather, because it would be hard to film it in the
rain. I’m so happy for this experiment but also full of concerns that some of
the people in public will overreact.
