Rut Activity 1

I have to admit a lot of the exhibits at the Heroes and Monsters exhibit seemed cliche. The point of the exhibit was supposedly to look at how monsters and heroes are viewed in society, but to me the exhibit was way too saturated with "These are real heroes! Moms! Firefighters!"

That having been said, a few of the pieces came off as original enough that I didn't mind. Perhaps my favorite, oddly enough, was that of civil war reenactors, one drinking a bottle of water, the other drinking out of a Coca Cola cup.

The part that resonated with me was that it wasn't every-day people shown to be heroes, but the reverse. People who did things we see as admirable and/or historically significant are just everyday people. While these were just actors, wouldn't the origialn soldiers who fought in the Civil War tired and thirsty and the same as the rest of us?

For the same reason, I also really enjoyed, "Snowy," which showed Snow Right cleaning up a house and taking care of kids while Prince Charming watched a horse race on TV. Again, these are people we watch movies about, but they must have had ordinary lives, too. This makes the superhero much more "human" than dressing up a mom in a superman costume ever could.