After watching all fifty videos,the one I have found the most gripping is” One evening on the #14 bus” by Christina Anderson. The monologue starts with a woman, performed by Pascale Armand, asking many people on the bus if she can use their phone to make a quick phone call to her sister. She claims it is an emergency because she needs to get in contact with her sister who is about to leave because of a mistake she had made. She yearns to apologize to her sister. However, as expected, everyone is not lending her the phone. Her comments such as ,” I’m not a thief”, “I’m not crazy”, and “I’m not dirty,” emphasizes the sad reality of insensitivity and disinterest people have for others. Even though the actress yearns for borrowing a phone to make a emergency phone call, everyone is indifferent and unconcerned. This type of apathy from the people around you can be also highlighted by how the people in the video were taking pictures to upload on social media to ridicule the woman.
This specific monologue left a strong impression on me because I can relate to her experience so well. Feeling neglected is very common in America. People can be so cold and could care less about others. There are countless amount of times when I felt like a disturbance because of the indifference of others.