Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Night visions: Paris Hilton and Iraq
Crikey.com.au - Night visions: Paris Hilton and Iraq: "Now, who does that soldier remind me of?
The one, crouching under cover of darkness, whispering to the camera on CNN or BBC World or Euronews. He may have a different name, and a different rank, each time, but essentially he looks like the same man each time. The same soldier. Why? Because he has that same look in the eye. The look of a bunny caught in the headlights. And I�m not talking metaphorically, but literally. He has that same ghostly flash in the eyes: like when a deer, or a cat, or a bunny is caught in the car headlights, and the back of the cornea flashes that amazing glowing glimmer - as if this creature were a visitor from another world, another time, another place on the UV light spectrum.
For that is finally what makes all these men look the same: the increasing use of night-vision �image-intensifying� camera technology. For whether they are the soldiers themselves, or the whimpering Iraqi families that such soldiers are rounding up in the middle-of-the-night, something about this spectral special-effect turns everyone into the same species. They all suddenly appear on TV as simply �the night-lit people�: the green gremlins of nocturnal war-torn countries. They become the washed-out figures of a sickly shining, shuffling like the living-dead, ironically beamed via satellite to our tastefully-lit �living�-rooms.
But that still doesn�t answer my question. Who exactly do all these infrared people look like?
Ah yes! Now I remember. Paris Hilton.
No, not the actual hotel, but the heiress of the Hilton family fortune, with the preposterously perfect name. The very same �heir-head� who has been in the news for the past few weeks; less because of the Reality TV series which she currently stars, �The Sim"
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The one, crouching under cover of darkness, whispering to the camera on CNN or BBC World or Euronews. He may have a different name, and a different rank, each time, but essentially he looks like the same man each time. The same soldier. Why? Because he has that same look in the eye. The look of a bunny caught in the headlights. And I�m not talking metaphorically, but literally. He has that same ghostly flash in the eyes: like when a deer, or a cat, or a bunny is caught in the car headlights, and the back of the cornea flashes that amazing glowing glimmer - as if this creature were a visitor from another world, another time, another place on the UV light spectrum.
For that is finally what makes all these men look the same: the increasing use of night-vision �image-intensifying� camera technology. For whether they are the soldiers themselves, or the whimpering Iraqi families that such soldiers are rounding up in the middle-of-the-night, something about this spectral special-effect turns everyone into the same species. They all suddenly appear on TV as simply �the night-lit people�: the green gremlins of nocturnal war-torn countries. They become the washed-out figures of a sickly shining, shuffling like the living-dead, ironically beamed via satellite to our tastefully-lit �living�-rooms.
But that still doesn�t answer my question. Who exactly do all these infrared people look like?
Ah yes! Now I remember. Paris Hilton.
No, not the actual hotel, but the heiress of the Hilton family fortune, with the preposterously perfect name. The very same �heir-head� who has been in the news for the past few weeks; less because of the Reality TV series which she currently stars, �The Sim"
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