FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy.
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FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 9 2008 at 11:55am by The idea of “one man, one camera,” used by Jennifer Fox is inspiring and incredibly empowering. The female gender and it's role in our modern world is explored through the minds and hearts of women from seventeen different countries around the globe. Fox reminds us how enriching and liberating travel can really be, and to get out there and bring your camera. You don't need a film crew. check out "Flying." It's well worth the time. 
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RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 9 2008 at 4:50pm by I think what really resonated with me is the struggle to decide how to be everything. I feel torn half the time by the demand that I should be tender and be able to talk like a girl, but macho and muscular and able to make a million dollars by the time I am thirty. I often don't know what to do! It is so overwhelming. I can see in FLYING that women struggle with this, but honestly, I don't think it is an issue of gender, I think it is an issue of freedom. We have so many choices, we think we should be everything, but we can't be. -
RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 3:47pm by I am thirty. I am a millionaire. And I live a very unhappy life. When you are a kid, you always say you want to be a basketball player, or an astronaut, or a ninja. Nobody when they are five years old says, "I want to be an investment banker." You do well in high school, you go to a good college. You do well in college, you get a high-paying job. You're 23 years old and making 90 g's a year, and you think you are doing well. Then all of a sudden you're 30 and you realize you've done absolutely nothing with your life. You wake up and wonder exactly when you stopped thinking critically about what you really wanted. You wonder why it became important for you to have a couch made from imported Italian leather, or why you need two BMWs, or why it is so necessary that your girlfriend be at least three years younger than you. Why couldn't I just do what Jen is doing? Why can't I just travel and film myself, find out who I am, find who other people are? I think I'm just too far gone. -
RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 4:32pm by Cheer up man. I'm an I-Banker too, there is fulfillment in the job. Just know that you only need to deal with money when you are at work, and you don't need to take your work home with you. The world needs people to manage money - if you would like to do something else, you should definitely quit and do something else. If you want to travel and film yourself, I would love to see it happen. But you don't need to define your life according to what you do to put food on the table. I think deep down you probably already know this, but the problems in your life are not coming from your job, they are coming from the way you interact with the world. The happiness you get is the happiness you give. So keep your head up, you are still only 30 and you have your whole life ahead of you. RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 5:18pm by Thanks, saltydog, for your words of encouragement. I didn't mean to be a downer, it's just that I think Flying brought up a lot of issues for me about my life, and I have to get them in order.
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RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 5:31pm by I don't know... let's be serious, men are not trapped in the same way women are. If nothing else, there is not the same emphasis on looks for men, and the same unrealistic standards they are held to, physically. Face it, there is a lot of everyday bullshit that we don't go through as men that women go through. And how about the whole childbirth thing? It's a lot easier to have a flexible career path without worrying about that. Yeah, everyone is trapped to some extent, but men A LOT less so.
RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 6:42pm by ... Dude...
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RE: FLYING spoke to me and I'm a guy. Posted on May 14 2008 at 2:58pm by It spoke to me, and I, too, am a guy. But to be honest, I didn't feel like I was noticing gender for a lot of the film. I know that sounds weird, but what I was really noticing was geography. So many people from such different places, both within and without our country. And they all understood each other. I think it would be overly simplistic to say this is a woman thing - social norms trap people everywhere and nobody is really free.
What really struck me was that, despite all of these cultural differences, and the contrasting social circumstances, everyone was able to look each other in the eye and say "I understand". And the camera looked them in the eye too, so we at home could nod our heads and say "I understand". As somebody who is pretty cynical about human behavior, and someone who is worried about the collapse of personal interaction in the world, it was nice to see that somewhere, people from different places were looking each other in the eye and understanding.
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