Blog 22

In the sixth episode of Dollhouse, “Man on the Street”, there is a scene that plays along with the title. The scene being analyzed consists of multiple interviews with random citizens walking through the streets of Los Angeles, California. The clip is actually pieced throughout the entire episode. Multiple opinions were collected by an television interviewer.

The first shot is of a reporter giving the background on some history about the Dollhouse, saying that it has been an urban legend since the late 1980’s and it rents programmable people to the very rich and very connected. The camera turns over to a man who is sure that the legend is a real deal. The next being interviewed is a very negatively opinionated woman. She directed her view to the idea that people will always have a need for slaves. The others involved in the interview included: a woman who found the Dollhouse to be something she’d sign up for, an elderly man who said if he could, he would have an “Ida Lupino” every night, a female teenager who thinks the dolls are beautiful for wanting to help, a woman on a bike calling the Dollhouse “human-trafficking” and repulsive, a man who is against the controlling of another being, and some others who simply shared their fantasies. The last of the interviews showed a scientist who believes that the technology will be used and abused if it exists. These interviews show the opinions from people who know absolutely nothing about the Dollhouse, other than what the interviewer briefly said.