"Photography is truth, and the cinema is truth 24 times per second."
– Jean-Luc Godard: Le petit soldat (1960)
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Images 1972
Robert Altman's Images (1972) delves into the inner life of Cathryn, a children's book author played by Susannah York, who teeters on the brink of insanity. The film portrays the dichotomy between madness and society within Cathryn's psyche. Her fractured mind is torn between the urges of the pleasure principle, manifesting as "dirty" desires, and the reality principle aligned with the societal norms of bourgeois love. This psychological schism unfolds through an allegorical doppelgänger narrative.
Furthermore, the internal representations of…
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The Thing 1982
The 'Thing' is not simply an alien, but rather a representation of what is alien to human identity. The movie is not about an external force from outer space but about losing one's identity to a 'Thing' called society or capitalism. This is why the group is so pathologically eccentric and why their camp is set in such a remote location. Both their eccentricity and their isolation symbolize what remains of their individual identities—what has not (yet) been consumed or…
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Nomadland 2020
[1] The Ideology of Chloé Zhao's Oscar-winning Film Nomadland
Chloé Zhao's 2020 film Nomadland tells the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), a woman in her sixties who lives in her van and has to travel through the US in order to find work because she recently lost her husband as well as her job and home. But instead of criticising the economic conditions that are responsible for her misery, the film goes on to celebrate the "complete loss of humanity"…Translated from by -
Dank 2024
[21] From Harmony to Armory and Back Again. Critique of Ideology in Günay’s Dank
The short film Dank by Tuvana Simin Günay depicts the class antagonism between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie, which is represented by the two protagonists. Süleyman (Kayhan Açikgöz) stands pars pro toto for the working class, while Nergis (Ecem Gündoğan), who buys Süleyman’s labour power, symbolizes the capitalist class. This ontological difference within the capitalist dispositif is analyzed in terms of its socio-psychological manifestation as the…
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