What Do Family Photographs Tell Us About the 'Happy' Family Norm? 

Elders sitting in the front, with the kids peeche, sometimes even sprawled on the ground. I realise that's how my family has been arranged for most of our family photos. Have you noticed a pattern in the photos of your family?

So much to unpack with this analysis. Reminds me of the opening of Anna Karenina: "Happy families are all alike. Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."

Damn!! Kapoor and sons was really amazing in depicting this. The family struggles to fake their emotions for the sake of the family photo that rishi Kapoor's character keeps insisting. Makes us realise that the current gen of parents and youngsters don't believe in faking it for a social status.

I mean at this point isnt that what it's about? Just pretending and putting on a show that everything is fine when it's clearly not? Isnt that what it has always been? Covering up the flaws and hiding the bad showing the good? But it's really interesting to think about

I mean you always force us to think what we never thought . it's like an awakening of sub consious mind to the world where it should be❤️ stay blessed and thanku for being there for us stupids

Well wouldn't one click happy pictures only. No one would like to propagate sadness. Or freeze a sad moment. That's human nature and a great survival technique (do not get depressed) Also, yes it is given that every family is sad and happy (sometimes former more than latter) yet, how is it related to clicking pictures.

I think I understand what they want to say, but they surely could have presented the purpose of the video more clearly.

How insightful! Makes me think back to all our family portraits and notice the implicit patterns there.

This video is not really feminist but an awakening call to people as individuals. Very few people understood what she wants to convey. The norm of faking happiness has it's roots since the ancient times. Even now in the era of technology where insta/FB have become like oxygen for people, we fake things. We are always showing the good side but we ourselves know the truth- The complete truth. She is not saying that a family should take pictures in grief or such, she is simply showing us how a happy family photograph is not actually a happy family. People are fighting, depressed, assaulted. We are faking everything for society who wouldn't remember u after u perish from here, this world, this society. When we think of a happy family- the picture comes in our mind is somewhat - normalized, and we think it as ideal. We should not sacrifice something as precious as ourselves by faking happiness for a society who doesn't even care!

It's really a thought provoking video. Never imagined that there could be so much meaning in those photos.

Great video! My thoughts- The reason we take pictures is to capture and revisit those moments later. We capture only happy moments because we want to remind ourselves of the good time we had. We want to forget sad moments, therefore do not capture those, although some happy pictures also remind us of people who are no more with us or the situations that followed that picture, making us sad. Family portraits definitely are similar everywhere, it is just reflective of the way the families live.

Well i didnt understand anything she said what was purpose of this video someone plz explain 😅

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Found the video simple.. Thought it would turn out to be something else.. but it didn't.. donno what's so insightful about this episode...

I think the point of the video was that people usually force themselves to smile for a pic not really be happy themselves. I guess they want people to take pics when they are actually happy not fake them?

I'm early, very early.

What was even purpose of this video.🤔 Literally trying so hard to understand😑. Most of your videos nowadays are well researched and make sense but this was one of the most illogical video swaddle ever posted. Why will anybody click pictures while fighting instead of resolving their fight. Bad memories are something which people don't want to remember while on the other hand people don't wanna forget good moments of their life so they try to store it in form of pictures.😊

Families r beautiful. The best thing one can get in life, if everybody understands each other. Family photographs will naturally have hierarchies. The elderly will be seated, the younger will arrange themselves accordingly with in the frame. Nobody would like to remember the worse things happened in life, it need not be documented, to remind onself of the trauma.

I found the argument very useless. We want to remember good things and forget the bad moments of life. That's why people photograph the happy moments. Camera now is an everyday thing but back in those days camera was expensive and printing the the film was costly. Who would want to waste only on printing photograph of a fight.

I don't get it. The photographs are to create memories. Obviously we want to capture the moments which are happy. Who would want miserable photo albums of memories. This analysis is flawed.

reminds me of the song 'Dollhouse' by Melanie Martinez

I regret not clicking family pics n photographs earlier in past times. Now 2 of them r not present😫

I don't believe in celebrating your sad moments as part of your life experience. Mankind deceives itself with such romantic approaches which is in my opinion idiotic. So what i do in my sad moments is feel the sadness and learn ways to get rid of it. We are here to get rid of sadness, not to put colors to it. Otherwise The next thing you'll be inclined to do is accepting your own violent behavior as valor and enjoy it as part of your life experience which is literally happening everywhere.

Are is video ka point kya hai Mtlb kuchh bhi dump kar doge yt pe😐 Ab kya rote hue family photos le😂

What was the point of this video except for stating some obvious stuff ?

Chair ko sir pe rakh k. 2 feet gadha karke usme bhetna chahiye photo k liye. Kyu?

You are talking about the fake image of happy family Bt it's just not only about family even on social media also our solo photos & photos with our friends also creates fake & false image among the society Overall I want to say that ये जमाना show off करने का है और आज की date में सोशल मीडिया से अच्छा कोई पर्याय नहीं हो सकता झूठ मूठ का दिखावा करने का जो दिखता है वो ही बिकता है और लडकियों के लिए अपनी खूबसूरती का दिखावा करना आज के डेट में और भी जरूरी हो गया है

I'm early for the first time!!

This is overthinking , finding negative in anything , what does they have to do with today's time

No cbt

I didn't understand this video

I mean yes parents are lead,but it shouldn't be authoritarian. Like communicative . I have seen some few pics where literally everyone gets along

I'm early, way too early. I need a love 🤣😇

Extraordinary

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i got this like 2 minutes ago . :P

The family system is India is the one which has maintained sanity in the society inspite of overwhelming challenges . The economy of the country is also somehow maintained by the family system where the wife keeps the savings of the family safe and acts as a safety valve preventing wanton splurge by husband . Imagine the mayhem and insanity if there were no family system in India . This is under attack by certain forces . They realised that India cannot be conquered at the borders , it has to be weakened from within . Culture and family values are the most prized target

Creating a problem with happy memories . I feel that all the joy in the presenter’s life has been sucked out like a Dementor. One thing is for sure . She does not have a Facebook account , otherwise she will burn with jealousy🤣🤣

So basically They don’t like happy family pictures . I sense some serious childhood trauma in this presenter 😂🤦‍♀️. Hopefully her cats provide her good company

I'm too stupid to understand this high class lecture but my family never could afford these picture especially prior to this century.. As is true for >90% of indians, i assume. These English publications shd stop pretending this is Europe or Americas & giveup applying their cultural yardstick in India. They're talking about an extremely small minority here.

Most bakwas video🤦‍♂️

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