After watching the documentary about Maya Lin and reading about the Vietnam Memorial, I feel like the most effective part of the memorial is reflection.
The names are carved into a shiny black wall in which you can see yourself. You feel responsibility, guilt and shame. You are beside the names in the wall- but worse you are alive and they aren't.
This shame and guilt makes me think of Hearts and Minds. In my RA I argued that Davis shows scenes of a brothel and a football game to impose shame and guilt upon the viewer. The same goes for the reflection in the wall. It is reflecting everything about life, not only life in the viewer but behind the viewer in the capital of the US.
This is so moving when you look into it, its amazing.
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