Apple Grown In Wind Tunnel Essay

When toxicity is often depicted, it is shown to already be a large movement that affects a wide variety of forms of life. However, Stephen Matheson’s film Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel: Wind Speed 85m per hour illustrates the spread of toxic practices at its beginning smaller stages in order to imply that the spread of toxicity begin in smaller stages before accelerating to much more expansive areas. The film achieves this effect by engaging in the common toxicity discourse aspects such as the us-vs-them dichotomy, in the form of the emergence of the recipe communities, as well as the aspect of the gothic elements, depicted by the disembodied human hands and voices. Additionally, the film introduces its own element of toxicity by beginning from
Since toxicity is usually depicted at a more largely organized form, the film subverts this expectation by introducing toxicity at a much smaller scale. In doing so, the film is able to urge its audience to view toxicity in a similar way in order to understand the importance one person can have in a process. Just like each person that began to adopt the recipes contributed to a larger group, the film argues individuals must also view themselves in a similar way to understand how to build their own communities to stop toxic practices. The gradual snowball effect the film depicts implies that the toxic practices did not occur overnight. However, just like the toxic practices did not emerge instantly, the resistance against toxicity does not happen overnight and instead must gain momentum even if it begins with at a small level. The message Matheson’s Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel: Wind Speed 85m per hour presents is twofold: toxic practices began at a small local level before expanding to more widespread use and the way to stop toxicity increase is by resisting the practices in a similar way it grew—at the small scale and person-to-person