Pussy Riot

     From this weeks class what most stuck out to me was when we watched the video of Pussy Riot when they went into a “Punk Prayer”. Five members performed an unplanned performance in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior. This as a result caused a huge scandal by aggressively protesting the connection between church and state in Russia, and I can see why. I disagree with how they went about handling this issue. I get they were trying to make a statement and get the publics attention, and that it was not directly intended for the people at church, but it was video taped for a larger audience to see, I just feel they should of handled it in a different way. I just feel that doing in church, a place where people go to worship was wrong and disrespectful. They are fighting for their own beliefs but at the same time they were disrupting and totally disrespecting others beliefs. As a result security took them out of the cathedral and later the event and video of it gained notoriety and three members were later arrested with felony hooliganism that was motivated by “religious hatred”. 

     On the other hand the video of the song “I Can’t Breath”  that Pussy Riot did as a global political statement for all those who suffer from state terror, specifically for a man named Eric who was chocked to death by police after caught selling blackmarket cigarets that were cheap. This video unlike the other video in the cathedral was in my opinion very moving, it accurately and respectfully made a very powerful point. I feel like this video and song did a much better job getting a point across, I was able to get a deeper meaning of the song. I also liked how the Pussy Riot took the time to recognize a global problem not just things that directly effected them, I feel like that makes them a lot more respectable that the are concerned with global issues and not just their own.