Cheryl Thompson Module 3-2

The speaker discusses the movie "Cartesian" and how it relates to the pandemic. The movie portrays the spread of a disease through physical contact and shows the impact it has on individuals and society. The speaker highlights the lack of transparency from the government and the biases in sharing information, leading to distrust. They suggest that the government should have provided guidelines to prevent the spread of the disease and be more transparent to gain trust. The speaker also mentions the importance of fair race relations and eliminating corrupt leadership. They express interest in examining psychological questions related to the movie, particularly the need for guidelines to prevent cross-contamination. Hello. I'm about to discuss the films that I selected to do my project on. I decided to go with the movie Cartesian. The reason why I chose that movie is because that movie reminds me of what this country went through during the pandemic, when people were isolated, depressed, and afraid, and people experiencing a lot of grief and loss and distrust of the government during that time. It was a very scary time in this country and actually in the world, and I found that to be very interesting and very educational. The movie takes place where a young mother travels out to country on business, and she ends up having a brief affair with a former lover, and she ends up contacting this disease, and this disease ends up being something that is transferred through touching and contact, and she ends up infecting her lover, and she's in a restaurant, and she's socializing and drinking, and the waiter ends up waiting on her, and whoever she came in contact with, she infected. Also, on her travels, on her way back home, she infected people. People were on buses. People in the airport were infected. People on public transportation in different countries. The disease ends up being transferred from one person to another, and it shows how a disease can be spread. Also, when she comes back home to Michigan, where she eventually came from, the first person she hugged was her son. However, she infected him, and he was 7 years old, and he ended up getting sick from the disease as well and dying as well. Also, in the film, there is the CDC gets involved when they notice that people all over the world are beginning to get sick, people in Hong Kong, people in China, people in various different states of the United States, people in different cities where this disease is going from one place to another. The mother starts out in Michigan where she lives. However, this disease gets to be spread from Michigan to Tokyo to Japan to Atlanta, Georgia, and different states, Chicago, Illinois. The disease is going from one place to another, and eventually the World Health Organization and the CDC gets an alert of all these people dying and getting very sick, and they're trying to find out what is causing this disease. One of the things that really intrigues me about this is how the information is being spread amongst the people. Once the information is, one of the bloggers, one of the reporters who's a blogger, he starts noticing that people all over the world is getting sick, and he feels as though that the government is concealing information from the people and the world, so he starts putting out his own posts, telling people what he feels as though is occurring. He feels as though that the government is withholding information from everyone, and he starts giving them updates, and he starts kind of interrogating doctors and people that he has ran across. One of the major issues in the film that I noticed are biases where information is withheld from the public and only privy to a select group of people, which they know that from the beginning that the virus is spread by touching, so they should have advised the public early on to wear protective gear and masks so they could control it. I think it's one of the social issues in the film and how I feel as though the government was being very biased with the public. I know that they were probably unsure what was going on, but due to the fact that the disease was constantly spreading, I think that they should have informed them on how to, in the meantime, how to prevent it from spreading. They could have advised them that the disease is, one of the first things they did know that it was spread through touching, and they should have advised them to wear gloves and keep their hands being washed and to wear masks. Also, what aspect of these issues and betrayal do I think psychological analysis will help eliminate? I think the government can become more transparent in order to gain the people's trust. I think they need to be more fair in race relations and also less biased in pursuing corrupt leadership. I think that's the only way they're going to gain trust from society, and I also feel as though that people, I think they showed discriminatory, maybe not in this movie as far as race relations is concerned, but I think as far as status was concerned. What psychological questions about the film that I'm interested in examining in the project, I feel as though the CDC should have put guidelines in place to prevent cross-contamination from reoccurring. I think that is very, very important. And then until they were sure on exactly what to do, I think they should have put some guidelines in place to help to prevent this from reoccurring, and I think they did not do that. And because of that, I just feel as though that's why the problem kept occurring. So that's what I think happened. So this is Cheryl Thompson, and this is my recording. Thank you.