Dreamworlds 3

Dreamworlds 3

            The narrator of the documentary Dreamworlds 3 claims women are portrayed as sexual

objects. The narrator has clipped together various music video images and explains them

throughout the video. The film shows how women are viewed as a form of currency based off

their body, and willingness to serve a man by playing on their fantasies. The film then makes a

connection with tragic real world incidents, which were influenced by music videos. The narrator

talks in a monotone voice and the music is very slow and dark. A contrast to the upbeat and wild

tempo from the original music videos presented in the film. The scenes from the music videos

are taken out of context to fit an eerie theme. This is a contrast of how the scenes depict the

women in a negative light instead, of a positive one.

The narrator makes the claim that music videos define feminism for women to be

displayed a pornographic and submissive form. The presentation of a female is to perform for the male gaze. Women outnumber men and are desperate to receive sexual pleasure from men. They are dependent on men, because they have a very high sexual appetite and must constantly be pleased.  Multiple women surround the artists in music videos, to show what women find attractive in a man. Females take on the role to perform to the male’s pornographic imagination. 

Women put on costumes to please men some of them may reflect a women’s profession

cheerleader or teacher playing to a male fantasy.  The narrator uses Jewel’s music video Intuition as an example to show how Jewel had to be viewed in a pornographic type of role, in order to be successful. Then, Mariah Carey is also an example of an artist, who never had to show off her body in music videos to be successful, but did eventually in order to maintain her career.  These two artists had to be shown in a pornographic image sexually dependent on men, conforming to pornographic image in order to continue their careers. 

There are camera techniques, which defines how women should be viewed. The camera

techniques imply, how women look at themselves the way men do. The women invite the men to

look at them in a desirable way, based on their bodies and submissiveness. Women appreciate

the attention, because they invite the viewer to look at their bodies in various poses. The camera

pans the women fragmenting their body parts, taking focus away from the women as an individual. Instead, they are viewed as objects ready to present their bodies on camera. An example of this is the popular video Girls Gone Wild, where women show off their private body

parts in front of a camera in a public place.  The camera plays many roles according to the

narrator of the documentary, by suggesting it is normal to look at women according to the

camera angles. The timing of the narration of the Girls Gone Wild film distorts the perception of

the time it takes for women to give the male a form of sexual satisfaction.

The narrator also claims music videos define masculinity, giving males a sense of false

entitlement to act on their desires. Men should view their masculinity as a form of control. 

Music videos tell the story of women shaking off a man’s advances as a form of arousal. The

female will eventually give in as long as the men remain aggressive. Music videos often show

men treating women poorly, by making the claim women want to be dominated.  During a Super

Bowl performance with Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake, Janet is viewed a female being

aroused by Justin’s advances. Janet uses various tactics to avoid Justin’s advances, until the end of the song where allows him to his way with her by taking her top off.  The incident in New

York during the Puerto Rican Pride celebration involved multiple innocent women who were

grabbed by various men, talked to sexually and had alcohol poured on them. The incident was

very horrendous, and the narrator shows how music video images played a role to justify those

men’s actions.

            The documentary Dreamworlds 3 makes the connection on how music videos influence,

the way men view women in the real world. The narrator changes the tone of the average music

video, and shows these images in a negative view by changing the music. Then, the narrator

explains various techniques as to how women are depicted in a man’s fantasy world. This

justifies specific incidences in the real world, where the music video fantasy had influenced men,

to commit outrageous acts of violence towards innocent women.