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The Green Ray 1986
"...at the scopic level, we are no longer at the level of demand, but of desire, of the desire of the Other ..."
The Green Ray is film with so much emotional resonance that it unveils the partial drive all movies rely on.
We feel like Delphine because Delphine's desire is the desire of the (big) Other and so is ours. Any aesthetic similarities between Delphine's vacation and our lives are subsummed by our shared structural framework.
"There is something…
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The Batman 2022
"For with the collapse of the high-modernist ideology of style-what is as unique and unmistakable as your own fingerprints, as incomparable as your own body (...)-the producers of culture have nowhere to turn but to the past: the imitation of dead styles, speech through all the masks and voices stored up in the imaginary museum of a now global culture."
- Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, 18-19
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