Human beings decide what makes up truth. Human beings can only be subjective, not objective. Therefore truth is subjective. By this logic any type of narrative is composed of forms of subjective truth; containing some type of truth that can only be told through one or many similar pairs of eyes.
In this instance the Reframing Mexico Project attempted to counter the partial truths that shape the perspective of Mexico, and replace them with many rounded and varying point of views. It serves to dissemble stereotypes and replace them with real people telling their stories. Because the piece is so collaborative it really does have a much stronger effect in persuading an audience into absorbing the different types of culture inside of the country. Certainly it would not be as effective if the segments were not in conjunction. Also just the mere shortness of the clips and the varying subject matter of each one keep it especially interesting and easy to digest.
At first I chose to listen to ones about generations and stigma, which coincidentally shared may of the same videos. Most had a large emphasis put on family, both as the greatest importance and a motivation to provide a future. In one video a mother talked about working twenty years at a quesedilla stand to put her daughter through college, another mother spoke about how the want to give her son a better childhood was her motivation to get out of prison. In some ways the videos showed how the whole of the mexican people are effected by the same events and live their lives similarly. On the other hand it really did dive into the individuals and simultaneously showed how every life could be different given similar sets of circumstances. This really manifested in the stories of the "dark life" or goth scene and the "vampire sisters" who both dominated the night life by exhibiting their own styles of passion and culture. Overall the pieces were quite successful in framing the collaborative truths of Mexico.
