1. To what extent can you see the "complicated intersections" of genre and the "irrational/logical" explanations play out in the public sphere, especially as that sphere "works" online (in blogs, websites, news sites, etc.?
The movie illustrated the idea of “irrational/logical” explanations perfectly. Although the content was extremely serious it was interesting, and sometimes humorous to watch the reactions of everyone watching it. There were times where the explanations of who the murderer was had my classmates and me looking around in confusion, or laughing out loud because of the ridiculousness of it all. For instance, when the media blamed an Egyptian national who didn’t speak any Spanish, but supposedly was running, not only the Mexican gangs, but the Maquiladora bus drivers. Giving them directions on who to kill, and what to do from inside his jail cell (since the murders kept occurring after he was arrested). There were times where explanations simply got silly.
This happens all the time online, especially in blogs. Blogs are a place where you can communicate anything you think, feel, believe, or know in a hot minute. Any information you get can be put up for others to see, whether it’s true or not. This often leads to irrational or logical understandings of an incident, just depending on what type of information is publicized, and what kind of ideas are spread. For instance, whenever someone dies mysteriously, blogs and other online venues blow up with hypothesis of what could have happened, but often it’s simply a bunch of people guessing, and not many people really hold truthful and realistic insight. This creates A LOT of false and silly stories, some which people believe to be true.
