WhoMadeWho released Knee Deep this year, but their hungre isn’t stilled yet and they are going to have a new album out this Februari. It will be called Brighter, and it will be released on the 27th of that month. This will be done via Compact. They will release a 7” of their first single next month, and that single will be called ‘Inside World’.
Famed film and television critic L. B. DuTorney once wrote in his essay titled “Why everyone is having fun and we are stuck watching moving pictures on a screen” that the reason we like films so much is that these characters seem to be living inside the world, as opposed to the viewers who are from the outside looking in. People take to this kind of voyeurism because they feel, so DuTorney says, that nothing “real” ever happens to them. They are not only voyeurs whilst watching film, but they feel they are voyeurs in their own lives as well, only in the latter case without the opportunity to spot Clark Gable and Erroll Flynn. In their own lives they seem to have no control, they seem to be always missing out, and they always see other people whom they suspect to be actually “alive”, doing things that constitute living, going through emotion and meeting people they positively adore or despise or endanger (though a survey shows the latter is less important to 67% of those who were asked).
However, whereas in real life we gain nothing from this notion of being a voyeur, in film we actually get to see what being alive consitutes, what living inside the world actually is. For we lack it, however we suspect others do live it, and through film and television we actually get it defined. Which is both positive as well as negative, according to DuTorney. Positive because it gives something to hold on to, and it rubs off on people, having them feel they are experiencing a bit of what they are seeing being experienced. Negative because it varifies that, Indeed, you are not living inside the world, Yes, you are missing out, and Quite so, you are getting nothing out of your life whereas other people aren’t quite on the same loser hemisphere as you.
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