Sunday, February 10, 2013

week 3


The video of Macau showed about the mixed cultures of Chinese and Portuguese in Macau. I think Macau is a tiny but unique city. It’s also a both traditional and modern city. There are many historical buildings and modern buildings in this tiny place like the world heritages and casinos. However, I think the video didn’t show much about the current development of Macau, like the fancy casinos, hotels and shopping malls. Macau has changed a lot because of gambling industry in the past ten years. Gambling industry is the main industry in Macau which brings the Macau government huge revenue. It accelates the booming of Macau economy and has attracted people to visit Macau from all over the world. Therefore, I think casinos and hotels are the important part of Macau and should be introduced to the people.

The other video introduced about America. I think that video is good though it doesn’t directly and explicitly show how America likes. It showed the different cultures and characteristics of America with an impressing song “the land of dream”. I like that song so much. I agree with some of the classmates said that the video could not provide them clear message and image about America and the video was taken in that way is because America doesn’t have unitary cultures and characteristic that can be shown. Each state has its own cultures and characteristics and this is what makes America unique. If I were the director, I would probably show the unique cultures of different states that can symbolize the American cultures like the cowboy, Hollywood, Disney, etc.  

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