Midterm project- Concept

Our original idea was to depict the control that we sometimes don't have over our own lives. We face situations in which we are defenseless against a threat and we can't predict the outcome. People react in different ways. Some people react violently and some people have a lot more patience and keep calm.

Violence is never the answer but we wanted to explore that concept and cross the line between good and bad. Violence against other people or even animals is never justified but sometimes it is good to let go and express our anger or frustration in a somewhat violent way against things that are not alive.

The videos that we used for when you press the doll really hard are of people losing control and letting their anger out on objects like pinatas, computers, dolls, etc. They are entertaining because we know that what they are doing is useless since the object is not alive. Thus there is a humorous approach to this because this kind of violence is not considered "bad".

Another point on using a doll that you can manipulate however you want is that the doll represents ourselves and our lives and how we don't have control over what happens to us so we enjoy playing games like The Sims because we can control an avatar and imagine that it is us.