{"id":3749,"date":"2018-09-16T15:16:25","date_gmt":"2018-09-16T15:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mordego.com\/?p=3749"},"modified":"2024-07-22T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T19:32:34","slug":"lets-face-it-all-movies-are-superficial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mordego.com\/es\/idea-meditation\/lets-face-it-all-movies-are-superficial\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s Face It, All Movies Are Superficial!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Let\u2019s Face It, All Movies Are Superficial!<\/h1>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t

Beware, this is a kind of philosophical post. Be prepared to challenge yourself to think in abstract terms.<\/p>

In essence, a movie it\u2019s just a representation of something else, might that be an idea, a story that happened in real life or a character.<\/p>

In the end the artist is trying to communicate through a medium that it\u2019s confined to a frame, selected images and the omission of almost all the boring parts of real life and of many of the traits of a person\u2019s real life in order to tell a story in the time frame of 2 hours.<\/p>

So it is inevitable to think that one way or another the medium omits lot\u2019s of pieces of information that hide the \u201ctrue essence\u201d of an idea, a character or a real life story about something.<\/p>

What does all of that mean?!<\/p>

Let\u2019s take simple logical steps and reason our way up from there. <\/p>

Is the movie about a person\u2019s life superficial?<\/b><\/h3>

We\u2019ll, it is as simple as thinking about if we as an audience get to watch a whole life take place in 2 hours within the limits of a screen.<\/p>

This might be the case of the life of Benjamin Button or any other film that it\u2019s a biography about somebody’s life. (The Wolf of Wall Street, American Sniper, Theory of Everything, The Social Network, etc.)<\/p>

Imagine that the person the story is about lived for 80 years and that the movie is a kind of biography about the man. Maybe in the first 30 minutes into the film we see him grow up until he is a young adult. Half way into the film we see him grow until he is 40 years old and by the end of the film we see he has reached his last years as an old man of 80 years old.<\/p>

My question then is: do you think that in the first 30 minutes of film we can really see this man\u2019s whole life? Do we know everything about him? Or are we watching a selection of the most important images of his life? Are we watching everything that happened in 30 years of his life in 30 minutes or is it just a summary?<\/p>

The answer is quite obvious. We are watching a selection of the most important moments of this man\u2019s life, but not his life as a whole and in detail. For that we would need a life that takes 30 years to experience the 30 years of this man\u2019s life in detail. And even like that we wouldn\u2019t be able to feel what he feels, think what he thinks, because we would still be an audience that is experiencing his life through a screen. <\/p>

Is the movie about a specific event superficial?<\/b><\/h3>

In the same way we cannot experience the life of a man like the man himself, we as an audience have to fill in the gaps of all the missing parts to understand the movie as a whole. We don\u2019t have to watch everything that happened in a person\u2019s life to get in touch with what his life looked like. We are pretty good as imaginative and logical human beings at filling in the gaps to really grasp the essence of a story. Even if it is through a superficial medium we can reach by filling the gaps, the \u201ctrue essence\u201d of the story.<\/p>

Within this category we find something movies like 127 hours, Sully,The Aviator, etc.<\/p>

As we cannot really experience a story in a true objective way, we always need a point of view from which the story is told and from where is, as an audience, get to experience the story. <\/p>

There are several ways to experience a story; as a main character, as a secondary character, as a character outside the story or even as an omniscient narrator that can change point of views and experience the situation from several angles. <\/p>

And even as a omniscient narrator we are always looking at the story through the eyea of someone else. Even if that someone else is the author of the story. We are always perceiving the story through the eyes of someone else, giving great importance to some things and leaving many that seemed unimportant behind. It is impossible to do otherwise in a time frame of 2 hours. <\/p>

So is it superficial? Well, it is sure that they are not the true events from an objective point of view. In that sense it is the superficial narration of a specific event. Because it is impossible to do otherwise. We, as an audience, are not living those events, we are being witnesses of what is said that happened but we don\u2019t ever get to experience those actual events because they have already happened. For a story, those events already took place, that means they are now in the past. What is left for an audience is to be witnesses of the story, nothing else. <\/p>

So why do we do that? Why do we love worries so much? <\/p>

Because we are very curious, curiosity drives us, we need to know, we want to know how to guide our lives, fill in the missing parts and get a sense of the story in hand because it is like a virtual training for us, human beings, to face the chaos of real life.<\/p>

So what is left is, are we always witnesses of a story or active participants?<\/p>

That brings me to the last question of this post.<\/p>

Is the movie about an idea superficial?<\/b><\/h3>

In fact, this is why we love stories so much. Because they trigger something in our heads, they get us going in a particular direction. We follow ideas that are suggested through the storyline to in the end find out something about ourselves or about world that we live in (may the world be abstract and imaginary or physical and surrounding us).<\/p>

This is where Andrei Tarkovsky’s films come in to play. They are movies about ideas. Not really about characters… Not really about situations… Not really about a plot\u2026<\/p>

The question here is if you can represent an idea through the medium that is film. <\/p>

If you believe that the answer to that question is yes, you will someway or another end up creating ways to represent certain concepts, through symbols, through characters’ attitudes, etc.<\/p>

In the end you\u2019ll be doing just what has been said, trying to represent<\/i> a concept, an idea\u2026 <\/p>

In the end it will still be a representation and never the idea itself. In that sense it will always be a representation, in that sense superficial, and never The Idea itself.<\/p>

The key thing here is, because the medium forces us, the creator, to create a \u201csuperficial\u201d story (meaning it won\u2019t be the idea, the true events or the character itself) and just a representation, to try to create a story where filling the gaps and the resulting conclusion of filling in the gaps it\u2019s the most important part of the film with the overall feeling that leaves the film in the audience.<\/p>

That was a tough post to write, I\u2019m open to ideas and discussions about the topic. See you next time!<\/p>\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\n<\/ins>\n\t\t

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