Response to Chealsea Girls

I actually enjoyed the Chelsea girls to some extent. The multiscreen projection was a cool idea, especially for the first guy in the section we saw, because he was talking candidly about how he perceived the world and how he perceived the world to perceive him, and we got to see him in the context of a social interaction. As he sat with the other socialites we could imagine what was running through his mind, in the context of his interview, at the time. And I could ONLY imagine what was running through his mind at the time of his interview. He was a pretty funny guy, like when he said "I'm not gay but sometimes I groove on having sex with guys." If not a cool film in itself, the Chelsea Girls is certainly a timepiece for their era.

It was an overall interesting concept to point a camera at someone for half an hour and see how they would react. It was as if Warhol transformed the camera into an entity in itself. There were parts near the end of the second act where the interviewee wanted to leave but stayed to finish the piece. I don't know how I would react if a camera were pointed at me. The first guy was on acid so he just spat out random thoughts from his racing mind. The second guy was on something...heroin? but whatever it was it wasn't psychadelic so it didn't help his performance at all. Instead of engaging the camera directly, he ignored it and interacted with the elements of his surroundings. I like the concept of the Chelsea girls.