#simeotics

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“My mother is your mother too.”

This video moved me, especially the part above (the...uhm...the picture). At first, I thought, “Oh no, I wouldn’t be able to relate to Muslim stuff.” But then, I saw the two disabled kids and I realized, maybe the Muslim theme isn’t that relevant to the video’s message. As the video progressed, it revealed the only family that the verbally disabled kid have, his mother. They’re struggle to go visit his mother was frustrating, at the same time it was heartwarming. I have a cousin, since birth until my second year of high school, I’ve been technically living with him (since we were at the same compound) until I moved out to our own house. But, ever since, we’ve had a very tight relationship. From the moment we wake up to the moment we wake up (yeah...), we almost always look forward to play with each other. Up until now, even when we’re separated, we still have that bond between us. His nanay is my nanay, my mommy is his mommy as well. We share that much with each other, like the kids in the video. Maybe that’s why I was moved by the video.

The signifier is a representation that stands in place of the signified. While the signified is the concept created in the mind. For example, the word COW is the signifier for the signified, which is the photo of a cow. In connection to the video, one signifier-signified relationship I identified was the word Mother that was mentioned by the verbally challenged kid. He told the blind kid that he misses his mother, which prompts the viewers (including me) to create a visual representation (which is the initial signified) of the kid’s mother, alive and well. It sparks our curiosity on why the kids told the other kids that they both don’t have any relatives when the verbally challenged kid has a mother. At the end of the video, it was revealed to us that the final signified was his deceased mother.

For me, semiotics makes us understand the relationship of the representation of the object to the actual object itself; and that the signified that we form in our mind isn’t always what the signifier signifies. As a future media practitioner, I may be able to use semiotics to create images in the minds of my “audience” to be able to explain more clearly what I am trying to express. And it could also help me become more cautious on how I will describe a certain signifier when pertaining to a specific signified.

This is the link to the video I watched:

https://youtu.be/G0HwiPHyenI

Thanks for reading!