Songs in class

I just wanted to talk about the differences in the rhetoric of the clips we saw that included music. I really do feel that, that one particular song…the one with the pictures…was the one that had a greater impact…I still see the picture of the young soldier…I think that the incorporation of the visuals with the, almost, matching lyrics gave the words more meanings. Instead of us, as viewers, using our imagination to picture the lyrics…we were given the exact image the person, who worked on this, wanted us to see. It has more of an effect when you can actually see the mixture of violence, and innocence, being incorporated into this Vietnam song. The song with the little girl seemed to have made the guys actually start to daydream. For a second, I thought it seemed very mechanical…the little girl was just singing something she had no idea about…with no emotions behind it. I think it would have been sang differently if she only knew what the songs meaning was. After the class gave good responses, I viewed it in a different view. Maybe her innocence made these guys think back about something that ties to that meaning…I don’t know, cause I didn’t watch the film. Another part of a song that stuck to me was the one Dylan used Gods name in this one line. I don’t remember the exact line, but I took it as him incorporating God, who is all forgiving, and to just give an example of how bad and corrupt things were…that God couldn’t even forgive. It kind of emphasized how bad things were…oh, and I just wanted to know if the movie night was going on Sunday or not?