Film Review: Dream Worlds

Dream Worlds 3
Dream Worlds 3 is a documentary discussing the brutal portrayal of body image in popular culture media and the affects of exposure to the barraged images in the public and private spheres.
Dreamworlds 3, the highly anticipated update of Dreamworlds 2 (1995), examines the stories contemporary music videos tell about girls and women, and by extension boys and men, providing a meticulous analysis of how these narratives both reflect and shape individual and cultural attitudes toward femininity, masculinity, sexuality and race. Systematically dismantling music video's most persistent and disturbing stock representations, and setting them against cases of real-world violence, sexism and discrimination, the film inspires viewers to critically examine how the distorted images of the Dreamworld connect with the lives of real girls and women as well as real boys and men (Oregon State University, 2009) .
The Dream Worlds film has summarized the dark side of what the our study of body image sums up to: the danger of over emphasis on the exploitation and use of body iamge to impact our society.

I thought the film was a provocative and exploitive documentary that delved deep into the cliché topics of body image and pop culture. For so long a lot of critics discuss how thin women affect other women’s self-esteem and eating disorders, but how far do the images go affecting the mind and the psychological aspects of body image. The film has somewhat of a fear factor tone to it, I assume to cause an impression of impending doom if such media continues to flood our lives. The creators of the film focused on aspects of music videos, young adult influence on trends and fads, and how advertisers and marketers look to the young generations to push the moral envelope.
The creators of the documentary did a great job at studying the various areas where sexuality and promiscuity has generalized to the music industry. The film showed how themes of sex are used to sell everything from the usual rap video, to cars, clothing, country music, and just about everything you can imagine. Dream Worlds 3 was very informative and well put together; however, I found it went a little too far with its dooms day like message and visuals. Unfortunately, we—all America—has allowed television and the media to get this way and the only way to fix such a dilemma is to control and sensor what we view with our eyes and minds and those we are responsible to.

Oregon State University, Initials. (2009). Libraries: multimedia collection. Retrieved from http://osulibrary.oregonstate.edu/video/perf14.html