Social experiment

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.