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What’s you body-language experts’ take on this short video?


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If you muted the sound / blocked out the title,  you could easily mistake it for a wedding announcement or such,  what with all the stifled giggles, beaming smiles and flirty hair-twirling:

 

Except that it’s a freshly bereaved family (parents and sisters of a murder victim) giving a press-release / obituary, one day after the murder.    The sister (the one reading the script) had to identify her sister’s dead body the night before.   The murder was rather brutal and horrific,  the victim was shot three times (including in the face) at close range, and repeatedly stabbed.   

 

Now, i loath dramatic public displays of emotion as much as the next person,  but even i find the whole thing bizarre.    Had a WTF moment when i first saw it on TV too,  still baffled after watching it two more times. 

 

(Somewhat relevant that the death  is being exploited as political capital in a rather important issue.) 

 

Those of you who love to analyse behavioural clues - what’s your take?  Maybe they all ’are just medicated out of their heads as ‘grief-management’, or wtf?

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It's completely off , the mother is smiling half the time. Probably medicated or in deep denial.

Very politicized   

"Why could we not protect the civilians? Why could we not have safe havens? Why can’t we take more refugees? And as she spoke, looking David Cameron in the eye, she seemed to be saying: “Listen to me. You all know I’m right.”'

She is in a bubble world. Who is 'we" , the Royal "we" ? Is she going to be taking immigrants into her home, for years at a time? I don't think so. Same as Merckel's solution, somebody else will need to deal with the bs of the reality. 

 

That entire article is only more proof of why the IDEA does not work in Reality. 

'The experience of the first two world wars was, of course, not entirely ignored. A new Geneva convention was agreed in 1949. And what was to become the EU was devised first and foremost to prevent future European wars. This single, most important purpose of the EU has been so often dismissed, belittled or buried during the referendum debate.'

because....and this is really very simple...during 'war'' there are NO rules. Plain and Simple. That.Is.ALL. 

Stupifying people by attempting to control the language they use to express themselves doesn't work. "RE-Framing" or some dumb shit. 

 

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She's very nervous. The shaking of her hands at times and the fact that she keeps touching her hair is a sign of nervousness.

She's camera-shy.

Her family are putting on a front for appearance's sake.

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Ahh, good old Yorkshire people... They're smiling, so they must be sad. No, seriously. 

I've got to admit, I hate Yorkshire and Yorkshire people, and think the whole place would be best put to use as a testing ground for new chemical and biological weaponry, preferably with its native population included. Okay, I do think this about everywhere on a latitude north of Watford and south of Glasgow with the possible exception of Liverpool, but Yorkshire has a special place in my heart, and not in a good way. 

I used to have to go there once every few months to see family who lived there, and went through a spell of literally every time I left the site where they lived I'd end up in an, often violent, confrontation with someone. It got to the point where I realised I am the common denominator, I must be somehow not behaving in the right way or misinterpreting what people are saying to me. A relative tried to explain to me how, if a Yorkshire person is smiling at you, it means you've done smth wrong, if they're scowling it's the equivalent of what smiling is for normal people, if they are rude to you it means they like you etc... Personally I just cannot tolerate rudeness and disrespect, but I've lost count of the amount of times where I've spat in someone's face or hit someone there and walked away and thought about it and thought, "was he just flirting with me??"

I just find the place very unnerving because I usually consider myself a good judge of body language etc, but there I can't judge if someone is having a laugh with me or being rude to me. Some months ago I was watching some cricket documentary (not by choice) and some yorkshire cricketer (Geoffrey Boycott?) was talking about some Australian cricketer, and he said smth along the lines of "he really understood Yorkshire people and how they speak and their sense of humour, and that's so rare for someone outside Yorkshire". And I thought, yup, I don't understand you, and I don't want to understand you, I just want you to DIE. Okay, maybe that's a bit extreme. But you get my point. Kinda how you feel about Muslims. 

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Looks like she's reading a nice speech for her Mother back there on Mother's Day.

On top of that, she said in the beginning how she had to identify her sister last night.... And had a 5 minute speech done on time the next day.

A read how this Jo Cox was shot and stabbed. Real gruesome.

If that's how Yorkshire people handle trauma, then they do have a secret the rest of the world should know about.

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Spatial Mind stated: source post

If that's how Yorkshire people handle trauma, then they do have a secret the rest of the world should know about.

I don't think it's that unusual. Lot's of people react differently when they're in front of the camera because they worry about embarrassing themselves.

I watched a show where they sent these kids into a real prison to teach them a lesson and this one kid kept smiling. He got a lot of negative reaction to it at the start from the guards and inmates because people didn't realize that he wasn't doing to be a smartass, he was just trying to hide his nervousness.

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You're preaching to the quire. I had a good time at my Father's funeral.  Those people though, as a family they seemed delighted meanwhile just the night before their child was shot and stabbed to death. Key word, they appear delighted.

Another time I was notified about the death of my friends Brother. When I showed up at his family's estate, I started off with a smile with some hugs, with no mention of why we're gathering, and everyone including the Mother was in a chipper mood. The house was loaded with friends and family, we were drinking and smoking all kinds of stuff. We got so damn drunk, then myself and another picked up some acoustic guitars and improvised on a song I can't remember, but everyone knew the words and we sang it loud. I was so plastered I was pulling a Jimmy Hendrix and the whole thing, wow our dead friend would have loved it. One of us started crying saying how he cannot believe this happened, and how he never cried in over a decade. I told him to just enjoy it then, then we held up our drinks and got even more drunk.

The emotions are there, and it's best to refrain from acting all dramatic like you see in the movies. Those people in the OP. They appear odd cause again they seem delighted, I think of that as mental health, and more people should practice that kind of reaction in times of trauma.

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I'd say this is just a case of nerves causing bad acting.

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The father killed her

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I totally agree.  The smiling is to mask the sadness, which the eyes tell more than the mouth.  There is also the nervousness, as mentioned.  Some of it is just a neutral expression (again, to hold back the roiling emotions behind it) but their facial structure is just that way.

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