The start of the video about the civil rights movement really moved me emotionally. The photographs of police brutality on African Americans are sickening to me. For how this topic relates to today is rather obvious because this same brutality and racial injustice is still happening in our country and the world today. With the technology we have today it is much easier for citizens to see and ultimately react to the terrible things that policemen are doing to the black community in the world today. Words in the newspaper are significant, but to actually see these images is much more emotionally moving. To read about a policeman unnecessarily assaulting an African American is one thing, but to see this event actually happen really lets the viewer experience the event as if they were there. This is how photography impacts the world today, it lets everyone in the world be aware and experience the horrible actions like police brutality and racial injustice that occurred in America’s past and present. In my opinion this is why photographs are much more telling than an article. It is true that a picture tells a thousand words. Reading words rely on the readers imagination of the event while images truly show the reader what happened and that is much more impactful to one of the interviewees in this documentary and I completely agree with him.
Another thing from the documentary that can be applied to the world today is the whole part about images of the Earth. In the world today there is still a group of people who believe that the Earth is flat and that belief still astounds me to say the least. It seems like images of Earth from space would ultimately confirm that the Earth is in fact spherical. I have personally never understood the “flat earthers” logic but what can I say some people in our country will believe what they want to believe no matter what even if something so significant as a photograph is presented to them.