Reviews - Regarding the Pain of Others

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Regarding the Pain of Others

Susan Sontag

4.08 AVERAGE

seleni_mama's review against another edition

3.5

challenging emotional informative reflective

dudulima's review against another edition

4.0

interessantíssimo. Sontag não se preocupa em dar respostas óbvias e diretas. pode ou não pode foto de guerra? isso não interessa. o que interessa é pensar e investigar porque usamos essas imagens, para que usamos essas imagens e porque essas imagens nos atraem. sempre pensar profundamente, porque a violência retratada eu nunca poderei entender ou sentir. posso, isso sim, pensar sobre o que a imagem representa e como ela pode ser usada para complementar uma narrativa.

wicked_sassy's review against another edition

5.0

Still timely and painfully clarion-true.

stowic's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional informative inspiring reflective tense fast-paced

anamelon's review against another edition

DID NOT FINISH: 28%

Boring and flat writing, reading feels like you're knee deep in sand and have to forcibly walk through it. Other than that, I felt like it did not offer any introspection, it took works of others (Woolf's Three Guines, War Against War by Ernst Friedrich, Robert Capa's photo) and described what they were about with some insignificant comment on the overarching theme of photojournalism.

What especially left me scratching my head was this quote: "in contrast to the 1914-18 war, which, it was clear to many of the victors, had been a colossal mistake, the second "world war" was unanimously felt by the winning side to have been a necessary war, a war that had to be fought." Which is such a ridiculous sentence that I lost any impression that I'd get anything useful from the rest of the book.