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The Interview · No.5
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“Hard to Believe It Actually Happened Here. but It Did”

Delivered by Ullman in No.5, this line is directly related to the Tragedy of 1970, but conceptually it reflects the many (mannnnny) atrocities contained on American soil.

It also reflects the cognitive distortion of American citizens about evil things taking place in “normal spaces” with “normal people”.

In this image · No.5

American History & American Culture

Ullman is dressed in red, white, and blue.

The beer stein and opener.

The American flag.

The official pen and star-lined paper.

Cultural appropriation as decoration: the copious amounts of American imagery and the Native American pattern curtains.

“Hard to believe it actually happened here.”

The Maze

The window behind Ullman and the trees would not be there.

“Hard to believe it actually happened here.”

Abuse

“Hard to believe it actually happened here.”

A conceptual marker for American History and many privileged peoples disbelief at the atrocities that have taken place on soil of “normal places”.