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The way the two of them dance, mixed with the serious look on his face, always makes me laugh! 'Dogtooth' is a brilliant film full of phenomenal moments like this one.
The film makes a clear message against the isolation and manipulation that authority typically subjects individuals to. It doesn't really matter whether someone wants... See more
cinematologist_instagram.comif you really vividly experience a concrete human life, imagine what it's like to live that life, and at the same time permit yourself the full range of emotional responses to that concrete life, you will (if you have at all a good moral start) be unable to do certain things to that person. Vividness leads to tenderness, imagination to compassion.... See more
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Hyperreality (Jean Baudrillard):
Reality replaced by simulations that feel more real (Social Media, see: Bo Burnham's Inside) there is a loss of authenticity
Performative Identity (Judith Butler):
Identity is not fixed but performed through social scripts
Absurdism (Camus):
Choosing to act anyway, even when reality gives no meaning or rules.
Absurdisms
Yorgos Lanthamos' films illustrate detachment and attempted engagement with a society that at once excludes and alienates. However, the setting is unlike contemporary society, where individuals make subconscious thought explicit, and are more accepting of things that are odds with current norms.
Individuals are either fighting to escape or to be
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“French social theorist Jean Baudrillard has this concept called the hyperreality. It’s rooted in simulacrum (Latin for “copying shit”) and follows this rule: the “faker” something seems, the more “real” everything else around it seems to be in comparison, even if this perception is a false one.
Baudrillard suggests that in order to deal with our
... See moreDirector Yorgos Lanthimos wanted to evoke an Old Hollywood feel by using painted sets. Most of the film was shot on soundstage, but the ballroom scene was shot on location.
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