The truth behind it all

In this class I learned so much about invisible narratives I realized that it is every where now especially in movies, books, and even speech. I never really payed attention to the invisible narratives that are put into movies. Now that i think back to my favorite movies there are more than one invisible narratives and most of the time these narratives are portraying a darker side of the story that is not picked up unless it is pointed out or viewed with a different lens.

After writing my last blog on the invisible narrative on the Little Mermaid which is still my favorite movie, but it has such a degrading hidden narrative on females. Ariel gave up so much of her identity just to get her prince's attention. She gave up what she adored most her family, her home,  her unique features, and lastly her voice. Now that I think about it there is another hidden narrative her voice was taken away, so it is like she is silenced and unable to express her feelings. She just has to deal with the decisions the prince makes, some can say she was blinded by love she lost who she really was and what she wanted in life. She made her self inferior to him. In Hollywood films they always specific on the race while they are casting for actors and actresses. I barely see races other than white having a big role.

After reading many of the blog posts that my classmates posted up from the previous weeks and they all brought things into my attention. What scares me is that these hidden narratives are negative stereotypes that are put out there to entertain their viewers or peers. No one really speak about this because not that many people pay attention to it since it has now been part of our norm. What is seen as normal and what is not. Since these social norms have been made ages back it impacts how people view this world. What I also noticed is that each paper has its own writing discourse their format and sentence structures are different.

From the readings that we had in class the one that I related to was from Ariely about the "High Cost of Zero". This is so true because when I shop I walk in a store all set on what I want, but the stores will always put on BOGO sales (buy on get one free). The word FREE has such a powerful meaning it is scary. It will automatically attract attention and it will incline the consumer to purchase this over the marked down price of the item you intended to buy in the start. This is only because you pay one price and you get more of it or the term FREE just catches your attention. Don't get me wrong,  I LOVE  free things and saving money just in general since I am a broke college student. I never really thought much about the hidden narratives I just always went in to shop and I always come out buying more than I need...Now that I look deeper into what these companies are trying to do make profit by manipulating how our brain will think is scary only because we will still buy these items even if we are aware that the store is trying to get us to buy more and spend more.