Framing Reality

Framing Reality

I watched a video titled “Warlord” by David Garrett. In this video there was a lot of symbolism. The beginning shows images of a fire and you hear a man speaking in what I believe was Native American. Then the film opens to a scene where a boy is sitting at a dining room table. The narrator is speaking and I could only assume that the narrator was the boy. He speaks badly of his mother and the food he is given. Then the scene focuses on the dog, which the narrator speaks of highly, in a sort of “God like” position. The mother drinks through the entire film and the boy seems to not like the way of the world. He sees the TV as blinking lights that made the other children dumb. He was given pills for behavior issues that he threw up and saved. He crushed these pills and put them in his mother’s alcohol. The timeline is by the moon. He runs into the forest after proclaiming that he wouldn’t follow the ways in which people lived. Many followed in him by the end of the film.
Symbolism: Going against the economic system. The pharmaceutical system in drugging the children. Treating the dog as a God. There are no men or fathers in this film only mothers.