I'm not going to lie, the more Walter White is portrayed the more he sounds like a guy that deserves to be ten feet under in a pine box.(dead was the analogy I was going for) and when the creator is still puzzled as to why people are sympathizing with the character it should be an obvious hint that you shouldn't be. Never the less this upset of human morality was then researched by a shrink (or philologist if your being pretentious) who was able to take time off from his busy schedule of finding out why "the color blue makes us sad" to tell us why we still care about a guy who's a top contender for worlds biggest jerk.
Fact one; the writers used a few tricks to "get us in Walters corner" as the article put it, one of witch is creating a plot filled with reasons for making us feel sorry for him.(simply put they rune the guys life and give him only one way out sell drugs)in this way my people can see and justify why he dose the things he dose.
Fact two; the method of getting people to identify was invented by a Russian filmmaker by the name of Lev Klueshov witch shows a close up of the actors face and what they are looking at causing you brain to identify what he's thinking(they used a candy bar and the emotion hungry for an example).
Fact three; the creators took advantage of the brains instinct to pick up on emotion and to portray these emotions as well. This instinctive response can be why people tend to get angry at the same pointless things at the same time (like the bills for example)
Putting my personal felling into prospective can see both sides arguing about the true moral character of Mr. White. On one side you have the perspective view, where you argue that he dose it for his kids and cause he's dying and if he dies then then what happens to his family? On the other end of the spectrum he's now that drug lord of two continents and has killed tons of people to get there making him a pretty scummy guy. The article made some good points like stressing the importance of point of view and how it can make the embodiment of human garbage look like a good guy.
My questions is "Why haven't I started watching Breaking Bad yet?"
Very impressive perspective :D Excellent job!
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