Dreamworlds 3 Film Review

This film was about the messages that are being portrayed in music videos. These messages range from what is considered feminine to masculine control. It also shows how sex has taken over to sell anything including music. Video directors have gone as far as to use the same ideas of pornography to spread to music videos. They also give mention to the fact that these images are spread across all genres of music. The movie also shows real life situations that mirror situations shown in common music videos. The main focus of the film is how women are sexualized in music videos to only be of the interest of men and how these constant images are framing what is considered masculine and feminine in society.

This film directly relates to the readings because the readings were about hip hop music videos and the messages that are constantly presented through the lyrics and visual images. There was also a reading called, “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” which is about how women are chauvinist pigs in that they engage in the acts of sexualizing women. To have these over sexualized images, you are going to need willing participants and women are constantly playing these roles hoping to get their 15 seconds of fame. I watched this show about video vixens and one girl even gave mention to willing to do whatever is necessary for the camera to be focused on her. The girls do more and more and go further and further to gain the attention of the camera. Some girls in the video gain fame, but the amount of girls who do not is far greater than that of those who do.

I did enjoy watching this film because it brought about new ways of thinking about music videos. I constantly hear from my aunt, “Stop watching those videos! They’re bad for you!” I would say why and she could never give me concrete examples and would only say things about implicit messages and how they change our thinking. I will most likely still watch music videos, but the awareness of what you are watching stops those influences. This video made me look at music videos differently and listen more carefully to what I am singing along with. I know that these music videos are not reality, but it makes you wonder how others may view them. Art is supposed to imitate life, not the other way around.