Feel free to add extra posts and comments as you like; this will provide us with a common space outside the classroom for musing, thought-spinning, harrumphing, or just writing witty responses (like a good film critic does.)
An initial provocative quotation for you to ponder:
"Cinema is truth at twenty-four frames a second."
Jean-Luc Godard
7 comments:
fancy username, Kehlen.
All this chineseness will be torn out by brazilian suggar cane love.
About the "provocation"...well...it just mean that it too fast for us to actually catch the truth and we have to deal with our own realities. Truth is for the weaked minds. =P
Not fancy, Flo. Just practical (I think in Chinese characters some days...well, most days.)
and Jean: If film is too fast for us to catch the truth, why do we bother watching movies? Or, why can't we tear ourselves away from visual games with truth and fiction?
Why do we need to tear outselves from visual games? It will be really difficult if we just circunscribe truth as something different from movies. When Godard mentioned truth, was the truth of cinema, and it is fast. But our reality is faster and much more uncertain! It is not really a choose. You have to deal with both.
Visual games are also truth.
Well, I agree that it's a choice. But are there no other alternatives between "Reality" and "Cinema"? Or could we say our reality •is• a film projected into the back of our minds at very high speed?
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