QotW6: Bonus Mission #1
"Don't Worry! I Don't Take Picture, I Take VIDEO!"
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzOGCTHqP6Y
This one video I have chosen is one typical video that you will see or even experience in the roads of Singapore, especially when you are involved in an accident. Hot headed drivers shouting vulgarities at each other, all shouted in the fit of anger? Do they really mean it? Some might even get of their vehicles to pick up a fight. When in a fit of anger, one could even kill a person.
That’s the reason why, with the convenience of camera phones, people take videos of the confrontation that would be going to take place. It could be acts to safe guard themselves, if anything was to go wrong or a legal case is filed. These videos would act as a form of evidence to protect themselves. For this particular video, there was evidence of criminal intimidation and road rage, in which the lorry driver could pursue and present the case to the Police. Apparently, the motorists was traveling on the middle white line and the lorry driver horned to alert the biker that the lorry was going to overtake him but the motorist did not hear it. The lorry got nearer to the motorist and the Indian motorist got agitated and stopped the lorry to confront the lorry driver.
I’m not trying to be racist or what, but I felt that the tone that the Indians started off was way too much. They approach the lorry driver greeting them with vulgarities. Who would like it? Instead of hurling vulgarities back, the Chinese lorry driver was calm and I really applaud the way he handled the situation.
Everything was put to an end with the involved apologizing to each other. But when the Indian realized that the Chinese passenger was taking a video of the whole confrontation, the Indian got even more pissed. One funny sentence that the Indian said was that he claimed that he knew what he was doing, but actual fact, I doubt he knows.
I feel that the Indian might be intimidated when he realized that the whole confrontation was video-taped. He even suggested to the Chinese passenger to put his picture in the press. But I feel that he do not mean it as he was very angry at that time. Perhaps upon reflection, he feels that he might be in the wrong.
This video is an example of sousveillance, meaning bringing the camera or other means of observation down to human level, either physically or hierarchically (Wikipedia, 2007). It was discovered that sousveillance can cause conflict and sometimes confrontation (Wikipedia, 2007) and this is what exactly happened in the case of the video.
One could easily take videos, with the ease of camera phones. Thus, whenever one is in this kind of situation similar to the video, one should just be careful of what he or she is talking about because you will never know who is videotaping the whole incident down.
Reference:
Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. (2007, 7 February). Sousveillance. Retrieved March 8, 2007 from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sousveillance&printable=yes
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Comments:
On a side note, Singapore drivers are really ungracious huh? hehehe..
Do you think that if those on the bike had died, that the passenger would take a video of that? NO! The driver would have surely been in the wrong and a video of that would mean that he is digging his own grave.
People, lets make 'movie' making more neutral. Show the other side as well. (now thats gonna be difficult!)
