Ask any actor, a mask is powerful. While the purpose of realism in acting is to strip away the pretence and make the actor expose their soul, on their face, for real - a mask does the opposite. It creates instant power and tension.
It makes the expression on the face immune to feeling, and therefore empathy. Masks are frightening.But the mask is becoming part of the iconography of 2011. Numerous protesters - here and elsewhere - are choosing to identify themselves with the online protest group "Anonymous" by wearing the Guy Fawkes mask.
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