It has been a film watching day today. Well, in part. It has also been a soup making and risk assessment writing day, with a little bit of work thrown in along with F1 qualifying.
As I write I am watching 3 Billboards. I noticed the use of music (and the lack of it) to communicate emotion in the film. The suicide scene is particularly moving in the film, and the way it transitions into a scene dominated by music is really interesting.
I also watched the wedding today, the first one in the church since lockdown lifted. Different sort of emotion (I think I saw the groom wipe a tear from his eye).
But the most interesting film today was on Talking Pictures channel, I recommend looking the channel up – it does some interesting and odd films – a lot of British B movies. The film was The Terrornauts. There were several scenes where robots would communicate with the captive humans through a series of bleeps. I almost felt I could understand the bleeps.
I’ve always been interested in communication between cultures. Having to write regulations for the world I have realised that the same words can have very different outcomes in practice based on the cultural understanding.
I’ve watched several discussions on things like wearing masks recently, and it struck me that there are very different communication techniques in play by people on different sides of the arguments. It seems to me that we will never reach agreement unless we communicate effectively, and sound seems to have a lot to do with effective communication. Maybe we need to find a way to include robotic bleeps in our social media posts to help avoid misunderstanding, or maybe just being a bit more careful with how we write.