Prompt 4: Change your world (HC)

I think that my major issue with last week's gallery exhibit - and the concept of the artist changing the world - was that the artist seemed to think he could almost replace the scientist or that science had no value. He explained to us that artists should be the primary innovators with science supporting those innovations.

To me, saying that is a large and ignorant insult. Science has been responsible for some of the greatest and most progressive changes in history. It holds its own independent weight. Any field can be fueled by or complemented by creative thought, but to discredit science seems unsupported.

I believe that art can have a massive influence on the world. However, art doesn't have to become science in order to do so. Fields of study can impact and change the world by trusting and following their own medium specificity.

Some of the most influential films in history are not affective because they are documentaries about how to pollute less or instructional works about how to raise a child. The most influential films are so powerful not because they overcome being an "art" but because they lean on and utilize their specific intrinsic storytelling quality.

I feel that artists shouldn't need to combine with science or another field in order to become successful or world-changing. The arts itself are justified and powerful in their own sense. Obviously no film has physically built a bridge or cured a disease. However, films have a massive power towards shaping our ideals, values, and understanding towards life. Films like The Graduate or Annie Hall changed how a generation viewed or idealized love. Others like Harold and Maude or The Diving Bell and the Butterfly help many cope with and deal with their thoughts on death and mortality. Movies like Brokeback Mountain truly forwarded the nation's acceptance of homosexuality. Films can utilize their individual qualities in order to change the world. While typically in no tangible or measurable ways, all arts can alter and affect people's mental and emotional inner and psychological worlds.

This is what I would love to somehow have a part in doing. I would love to be a piece of a film that moves or touches people in some close or intimate way.