Strange: train view vs. TV view
We discussed the strange parts that occurred in the Samsung commercial. The commercial compared experiences that are rare for a human or hard to experience with a normal and in some cases everyday experience of riding a train. The TV showed that it is able to take you away from the everyday life into a more extraordinary setting. Also, those who board the “Samsung train” never get off because they are so enraptured in it. Many TV’s try to make an unattainable reality more and more reachable through the use of 3D TVs and high definition. This seems so normal to people today that TVs should be more advanced and make us feel a part of the action, but when even movies just came out they were extremely strange to people. The first movie created, made people believe that the train on the screen was going to actual come through the wall and run them over. So, looking at how fear was the original reaction to TVs to a “make it more real” mentality is strange in-and-of-itself. Beyond that we go see 3D movies and even some roller coaster rides have a hologram mechanism that works with that shows that society is driven to having the unreal, real. That what we can't live we must in some way experience. This can be both good and bad, letting us "live" our fantasies, and pulling us from the world we are in for a few hours, but this can also be detrimental. Causing us to losing ourselves in what we can't have, yet what we perhaps truly want.
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