tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post8374366496305554645..comments2023-10-22T17:40:51.323-04:00Comments on Tativille: New Film: To the Wonder (2012)Michael J. Andersonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12333893240336518881noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post-69913249283846491172013-04-25T14:19:51.331-04:002013-04-25T14:19:51.331-04:00Definitely. And I guess the almost complete lack o...Definitely. And I guess the almost complete lack of on-screen dialogue in the Malick further adds to this. It is a really radical film when you think about it, especially in terms of narration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post-78708855137973607322013-04-25T12:50:05.442-04:002013-04-25T12:50:05.442-04:00Dear Lasse,
I think this is right. I would only s...Dear Lasse,<br /><br />I think this is right. I would only say that Malick's particular form of subjectivity comes to much the same end as the current mode, despite its very different justification & film-historical lineage.Michael J. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12333893240336518881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post-39994179817208398842013-04-25T03:17:04.362-04:002013-04-25T03:17:04.362-04:00Interesting. I have to say, though, that to me, th...Interesting. I have to say, though, that to me, this lack of cartographic contours in To the Wonder mostly seems to stem from the subjective focalization that you point out. And this seems more of a modernist trait (in the classical and melancholic sense) than anything twenty-first century.<br /><br />I would be more prone to apply this term to Spring Breakers which - through its modular and 'sampled' modus - succeeds in projecting a filmic diegesis that neither constitutes a hermetic fictional universe nor anything that feels like a real world referent.<br />Or perhaps I haven't understood the term fully. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post-6905349775357688942013-04-23T10:08:13.602-04:002013-04-23T10:08:13.602-04:00Thank you, Lasse; I very much appreciate it!
By &...Thank you, Lasse; I very much appreciate it!<br /><br />By 'post-diegetic' I am referring to this new mode of cinema that has arisen in the early twenty-first century, mostly on the gaming-inspired margins of commercial American filmmaking (eg Neveldine/Taylor, "Southland Tales," etc.). In this mode, the creation of a unifiied diegetic world into which the viewer looks has increasingly been replaced by a "cinema of attention," to quote site co-proprietor Lisa (who also saw the connection in the Malick), by work that requires that the viewer attend to the mass of information that the film presents, often in flat, sometimes multi-panel images. <br /><br />"To the Wonder" works to the extent that we are given little sense of the cartographic contours of the world it depicts and are offered scant opportunity to explore its world in depth, for reasons that perhaps mostly have to do with its subjective focalization.Michael J. Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12333893240336518881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13095695.post-50863215586947225622013-04-23T01:46:18.191-04:002013-04-23T01:46:18.191-04:00Great review!
What does 'post-diegetic' me...Great review!<br />What does 'post-diegetic' mean?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com