Come Fly With Me versus Big, Bigger, Biggest

Come Fly With Me versus Big, Bigger, Biggest

<Genre>

Come Fly With Me is a mockumentary film and Big, Bigger, Biggest is documentary. Mockumentary’s intention is to “analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself. They may be either comedic or dramatic in form, although comedic mockumentaries are more common.” (Wikipedia) Documentary is “intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record.” (Wikipedia)

<Representation>

In my opinion, both of these films represent the busy people all around the world. In the airports, people always busy checking in or packing their luggage. These people are busy thinking about their business trips, or the cruise they’re going to have. They always rush to not miss their plane. By looking at these two films, we can see that people in the airports are busy and rushing, as well as the people in the whole world.

<Semiotics>

Both of these films have the topic of the airport. Airport can be a sign of the connection of the world. It has runways for airplanes to take off and land and many facilities for passengers. By providing these, airports connect people around the world. Without these airports, we cannot travel between countries. Business people cannot make business trips, students cannot go abroad and study, or presidents or governmental officials cannot make summit talks. Airports are an important tool to people’s lives.

<Narrative>

Many events in these two films are possible in the real world.

In Big, Bigger, Biggest, there were some concerns about terrorism. It says in the documentary that workers’ number one concern in the airports is security. There are dangerous illegal actions and terrorism happening all over the world in the airports. These terrorists not only kill the innocent people, but they also have an intention to hurt the entire economy. From watching this documentary film, I learned that terrorists think ahead and plan carefully to ruin the lives of the people and the economy.

In Come Fly With Me, there are racism and illegal actions in the airport. When one African woman from Liberia tried to enter into the airport, the officers stops her and says that she has a forged passport. He keeps on saying that there is no such country as Liberia. The woman looks frustrated and upset because of that ignorant officer. Another thing that’s possible in the real world is the flight delay. Passengers got frustrated because of the delay. The officer tells each of the passengers lies about the delay. He makes up lies and tells a woman that the pilot is busy eating his dinner. I know some of his actions are very satirical, but flight delays, racism, and illegal actions are very common in the airports.