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| ==== Zimmer Land ==== | ==== Zimmer Land ==== |
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| I don't believe the park was built to be a brutality simulator, at least not at first. Based on some of Hedley's remarks, I get the impression that it was meant to make the patrons reflect on their choices in each module. Why did I choose to be aggressive? Why did I target this person and not that one? That isn't necessarily an impossible task. Consider the pedestals in the house: Isaiah describes them as a choice between calling police, shooting the person, or fist fighting, but that's a false trichotomy. The guest could go out empty-handed to invite the actor inside for a drink, or they could stay inside and let the actor walk right by. Being hostile is a choice actively made, not a neutral response. | I don't believe the park was built to be a brutality simulator, at least not at first. Based on some of Hedley's remarks, I get the impression that it was meant to make the patrons reflect on their choices in each module. Why did I choose to be aggressive? Why did I target this person and not that one? That isn't necessarily an impossible task. Consider the pedestals in the house: Isaiah describes them as a choice between calling police, shooting the person, or fist fighting, but that's a false trichotomy. The guest could go out empty-handed to invite the actor inside for a drink, or they could stay inside and let the actor walk right by. Being hostile is a choice actively made, not a neutral response. |
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| | This is well outside my experience, but "Zimmer Land" also feels critical of the "Black cop" (for lack of a better term) philosophy. An attitude I've heard before is, "if you want cops to stop murdering members of minority communities, then more people from those communities should become cops." Doug feels like a counterpoint to that argument. Like Isaiah, Doug is himself Black, but he is totally committed to upholding the existing order. He is coldly indifferent to Isaiah and uses his position of power to promote entertaining spectacle over Isaiah's more idealistic goals. Melanie once criticized Isaiah for his role at the park, but even she bought into its ostensible vision once she joined. Isaiah himself sits astride the line between belief in that vision and disillusionment with the park's failure to meet it. To me, these examples serve to argue that a system such as the park (or policing) //will// have conformity; its members must either adopt its outlook or depart. |
| This is well outside my experience, but "Zimmer Land" also feels critical of the "Black cop" (for lack of a better term) philosophy. An attitude I've heard before is, "if you want cops to stop murdering members of minority communities, then more people from those communities should become cops." Doug feels like a counterpoint to that argument. Like Isaiah, Doug is himself Black, but he is totally committed to upholding the existing order. He is coldly indifferent to Isaiah and uses his position of power to promote entertaining spectacle over Isaiah's more idealistic goals. Melanie once criticized Isaiah for his role at the park, but even she bought into its ostensible vision once she joined. To me, these examples serve to argue that a system such as the park (or policing) //will// have conformity; its members must either adopt its outlook or depart. | |
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| Ending --- Isaiah refuses to fight back in front of a regular's kid; an act of protest, a preamble to departure, or an attempt to highlight the guest's brutality for the kid? | Ending --- Isaiah refuses to fight back in front of a regular's kid. Is this an act of protest, a preamble to departure, or an attempt to highlight the guest's brutality for the kid? |
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| ==== Through the Flash ==== | ==== Through the Flash ==== |