Videotape Don Delillo Summary

As the society changes, people desire to search for more stimulant topic. Many fail compilation videos and realistic and violent games are trending. This is what people want to see and this is what you also want to see that are something new and intriguing. You probably won’t hesitate to look at something you always wondered how it looks like when that happens. Don DeLillo well described postmodernism through his writing “Videotape”. His word choices and criticizing how the technology takes role in the society and the mixture between innocence and brutality shows postmodernism in this story.
As you read the story, you will realize his usage of certain words such as “you” and “forever”. Don DeLillo constantly used the word “you” and never used
They are almost one. After World War II, the technology significantly improved and is still improving. As technology is more exposed to us, there are times that we need to use technology to accomplish certain tasks. The innocent twelve-years-old kid, just like other kids with cameras, was learning and playing with it. She didn’t know what she was about to record. She just filmed whatever she could see in the car. After the video that she accidentally recorded, spreaded in the media, the narrator claimed that this kid’s privacy “is being protected here”, but people still know why she had the camera with her and how she filmed that brutal scene (1423). People also know how old the kid is and this kid’s gender. She is “neither the victim nor the perpetrator of the crime”, but who just simply recorded the scene with no intention (1423). The film itself became so famous because “it is on tape and because the murderer has done it may times and because the crime was recorded by a child” (1426). The innocence of a child and the crime is so contradictory. But the fact that the innocence is involved in such a violent incident made people more interesting. It is so ironic that even the child’s privacy is being protected, the child is constantly mention throughout the story. People even called the kid “the Video Kid” because they have to call her something (1426). Not only the brutal video was popular, but “so is she”