Yesterday in my Documentary Film class we watched a segment of a documentary about anti-feminism in Iran. The documentary was shot in a car using only two cameras; one camera captures the driver, the other camera captures the front passenger. During the first ten minutes of the film only the passenger, a young boy, can be seen. He spends the entire ten minutes talking with the driver, his mother, whom we do not see.
After watching this clip we had a class discussion and I noticed that the majority of the class had formed an opinion of the mother even though no one had actually seen her. The sound of her voice created an image of her in our minds, just as the sounds of birds chirping allows us to know there are birds nearby without actually having to see them. We didn’t need to see her face to know when she was angry; her tone of voice was enough.
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