Sunday, February 16, 2014

Different Perspective of
Apparatus Film Theory

                    Most of us doesn't know what is the general meaning of Apparatus Theory. We can't explain the different perspective of Apparatus Theory if we doesn't know the meaning of it. Apparatus Film Theory is ideological and argues that cinema maintains the dominant ideology culture within the viewers. Ideology is part of it's nature. Apparatus Theory follows an Institutional Model of Spectatorship or in the simplest way that it has a effects to the viewers. 

KARL MARX

                    According to Karl Marx that the society is capitalist. Marxist Film Theory was a capitalist, which argues that society is characterized by disagreement between social groups. Marxist Theory means that the rich/wealthy people demoted the poor people. For Marx, the poor people should have no power than to the rich one. Poor people works for those people who have a lot of money. For me, It's really unfair. Rich people should not degrade the poor people. They must help the poor people to lighten up their lives. Each people must have rights to be free. For Marx, most of the films shows how the rich people demote the poor one. 

JACQUES LACAN 

                    Jacques Lacan was a French Psychoanalyst. His perspective was distinctive from Karl Marx. Lacan called the most controversial psychoanalyst because his psychoanalytic theory is the adaptation of Sigmund Freud's principles - Unconscious Mind which are the Ego, Super Ego and Id. It means that the psychoanalytic theory of Lacan is the language that we need to understand. 

CHRISTIAN MERTZ

                    Christian Mertz was a French film theorist also a best pioneering the application of Sausurre theories of semiotics to film. It means that the signs and symbols has a different meaning and we can see it everywhere even in the cinema. He also said that the cinema is like the reality and specific language. Semiotics was the eye opener of each individual. Like what I said signs and symbols has a different meaning we should think first, we should contemplated our minds using those thing. 

Saturday, February 15, 2014

Cinematic Desires: A Pervert's Guide to Cinema


Cinema is the art of appearances, it tells us something about reality itself. It tells us something about how reality constitutes itself. - Slavoj Zizek


"Cinema is the ultimate pervert art. It doesn't give you what you desire - it tells you how to desire"
- Slavoj Zizek

                  Slavoj Zizek was a philosopher and a psychoanalyst. Zizek is a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Another is, Zizek is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology at the University of Ljublijana, Slovenia. Slavoj Zizek is the one who presented The Pervert's Guide to Cinema. 



                   The content of The Pervert's Guide was the film critic of Zizek. He explained some scenes which is Possessed (1931), The Matrix (1999), The Birds (1963), Psycho (1960), Duck Soup (1933), Monkey Business (1931), The Exorcist (1973)Alien (1979), The Great Dictator (1940)Alice in Wonderland (1951), The Red Shoes (1948), , Fight Club (1999), Dead of Night (1945), The Conversation (1974), Blue Velvet (1986),Vertigo (1958).Solaris (1972) and many more. He explain those films in a broad way. He expanded the knowledge of the viewers to understand the the hidden language of the cinema and the uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves.


                   Most of us when we watch a movie we agreed in the whole thing. We didn't criticize the movie we've watch. Zizek tells us the cinematic desires of every movie we've watch. The movie should give what we need in the whole story and must the cinema give what you desire. The cinema must satisfy their viewers to desire.  But sometimes the cinema fails to give what we need or what we desire and to show the connection in reality. And for that cinematic desire is tackles about the how the cinema touches the viewers mind and it tells about how the cinema satisfy their viewer and they responsible with that. Zizek wants us to see the reality when it comes in cinema.