I think there are two ways to make social commentaries through art. One is to use art as a soap box upon which to assert a certain social view, The other is to use art as a tool to probe the details of real social conditions and real human behaviors, and from this probing let a social view emerge in mind of the viewr. The problem with using a one-hour episolds of serial soap opera for social commentary is the format necessarily simplifes the details of real social condition and behavior most of the time, and so must resort to simply asserting a social view most of the time.
A social view that is merely asserted will convince only the already convinced. A social view that emerges from probing details of real social conditions and real human behaviors can convince the reasonable thoughful open minded skeptic.
A social view that is merely asserted will convince only the already convinced. A social view that emerges from probing details of real social conditions and real human behaviors can convince the reasonable thoughful open minded skeptic.
