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.....DON'T MIND IF I DO!
Ack.
Um.
I suppose for simplicity’s sake, I’ll talk about one of the
scenes I mentioned in my screening notes.
In the first ten minutes of the movie, there’s this scene
with the newly married couple are trying to get this stretch limo down a
winding and narrow road. The driver
himself can’t seem to do it, which leads to two passengers to take a shot at
doing it themselves.
To me, when I look at it through the lens of the impending
death of cinema, I see it as a commentary on the film community as a whole
throughout history. Film would come to
these difficulties over time, these winds in the road as film evolved and
changed, thus changing what the cinema was offering and what brought people in. And like with any invention, until something
replaces it, it’s a matter of trying to out do what came before. In this case, Justine and her husband were
other film makers, thinking they had the better way to go about it. Meanwhile, the driver and the other spouse
stood on the sidelines and playful taunted the driving person. It’s like how different film makers think
they have found the thing to really draw people in and make money in the
cinema. For awhile it was variety film,
then action films in the ninties, then super hero films were big until Mel
Gibson struck while the religious iron was hot and beat Spiderman. Then we moved onto having more computer
generated film, and now 3-d film. I
think that the limo’s jerking and uncomfortable movement is a great example of
where the cinema is going, as in it’s a slow movement where little positive
progress is made each time. And then,
finally, when someone does get it right and draw people in, i.e. when Justine
finally gets the limo here it needs to be, a planet collides with you the next
day and the limo is lost. Thinking of
the scene in terms of the whole film really drive home the futility of these
shiny new things in film trying to draw people into the cinema, when in reality
it is destined for doom.
