What is the art of art that is difficult to distinguish between true and false ?
In short, it is a "seeking truth in the false" thing. Whether it’s an ancient Greek singing team, a stage where people are staring at it, or a filming set-it all artificially constructs a false scene, and then points to you and says, "Look, that's where art was born." Indeed, art. Only in this "fake" carrier can we have the freedom that reality does not endow, can we unrestricted depiction and display, and can reach "real" as much as possible. At this time, the “fake” of art is completely separated from the “truth” of reality. We know that it is a dream when we watch the theater. After the dream is finished, we have to return to life.
However, since the 20th century, art has continuously undergone a revolution. This revolution is generally manifested in two aspects-one is the content of art, and the other is the carrier of art.
The content of art is man-made, which becomes evidence to confirm its "fake", whether it is a story written by a person or a well-carved portrait. However, Contemporary Art keeps instigating against it, and we gradually see that a person or an animal can also become the content of a sculpture, and these objects completely derived from reality break the artificiality of the original content of art, thereby eliminating the boundary between true and false. .
So what if the same instigation is carried out on the carrier of art? If art no longer needs to build a stage, if its carrier is no longer a false scene but a real reality, if we become increasingly unable to discover the boundary between true and false, then what will happen?
This is what Karax's "Sacred Car Walk" explores, it is his prediction of the future development direction of art and the world, and it is also the reason for the "direct performance in real life" and the "hidden camera and shooting set" in the film. .
In the film, the actor Oscar’s first task is to play an old woman. We were surprised to find that he did not go to the set (and there is no set), but directly begged in the street. This action similar to performance art directly expresses the breaking of the “false scenes” of art, and the play takes place directly in life. And the development of the plot continues to break what we think is "true" content-Oscar's dialogue with her daughter, shooting the banker, killing the robber and being stabbed to death by the robber, returning home to reunite with the orangutan family... All of this is the task of drama, the falsity that happens in real life. And when Oscar's life is full of missions for 24 hours, we discover that the false has completely swallowed the truth, and life has become a complete drama.
So Oscar couldn’t help sighing, “I just miss the camera. When I was young, the camera was taller than us, and now the camera has become smaller than our head, and now we can’t see them anymore.”
And this art that blurs the boundary between true and false What has become of it? Oscar’s boss asked, “What motivates you to keep you persistent?” Oscar replied, “Just like when I decided to do work, for the beauty of behavior.” “Beauty...It is said that beauty only exists in the eyes of the audience. The audience no longer watch it?” The
second film semiotics uses the mirror image theory to explore the relationship between the screen and the audience, that is, the audience can project themselves into the story by gazing at the screen, and then obtain the pleasure and comfort of the soul. The premise of "gaze" and "projection" is to maintain the distance between the audience and the screen, which is the determination of "true" and "false". Nowadays, art intervenes in reality, distance disappears, and “projection” and “substitution” have become personal experience. Can the beauty and comfort of art itself be preserved? Has art gone to its opposite side, no longer expressing, but becoming a burden for people?
Back in the movie, you said, is Oscar happy? I think the happiest moment for him was when the female assistant almost ran into an oncoming pigeon at night, when he suddenly shouted, "Driver, catch up with that pigeon!" Divorced from reality and felt freedom and joy. It is this passage that makes me feel the only softness in the movie.
2. The world
that is difficult to distinguish between true and false If the art shown in the film has confused the true and the false, then there must be a deeper root behind it-that is, the world that confuses the true and false.
After the shooting at the premiere of "Batman 3", Daqi Tiger Skin teacher once wrote an article about "Denver Shooting", saying:
"In film history, this incident is related to the organization of the Lumiere brothers in Paris in 1895. The “training effect” caused by the first screening of the film was comparable. In 1895, when the Paris audience saw the train driving towards them into the screen and towards their bodies, they were frightened and fled. But today In Denver, when the murderer with a live ammunition calmly released smoke bombs in the auditorium and shot them into the auditorium, people thought it was a special program scheduled for the premiere night. These two incidents portray the changes brought about by the existence of the film over the past 100 years. 100 years ago, people were afraid of hallucinations, and the high similarity between movies and reality makes people feel deeply disturbed. 100 years later, people love hallucinations, indulge in false violence and spectacles, and even believe that real shooting brutality are movies and hallucinations. , The extension of performance in reality. This change is a change in the scale of people's evaluation of film and reality. Movies mean spectacles, illusions, and endless dreams. In the past, people used reality as the scale to make movies, using the illusion of perspective with the naked eye Filming the reality of the train entering the station. Today, people enjoy, use, and use this realistic and imaginative high-simulation magic endlessly, and judge reality on the scale of a movie: scrambling to watch the premiere, mistakenly believe that the real violence is False hype and show, or, the assailant himself and Batman’s plot, characters have a hidden imitation relationship, etc. If it is said that in the past, many scholars have been harsh on the abuse of violence, sex, spectacle and ideology in Hollywood movies Criticism is because they are full of worries about the reality that the current state of the film may cause. It is only a predictive concern about the future of the film. But now, these harsh, predictive, and harsh scholars’ minds It is expected that it has become a bloody reality. The scale change between the movie and reality was brought before the eyes by more than 30 gunshots and 12 corpses on the night of the Batman premiere. "In
modern society, the media's involvement is increasing. , It determines the information we obtain, affects our interpersonal communication, and even defines ourselves... When the media with its convenient virtual space constantly invades people’s lives, it is also constantly impacting the boundary between truth and falsehood. We no longer With solid living modules and boundaries, everything is crushed and then thrown into this huge mixer.
In the movie, Oscar finally finished his day's work. The female assistant sent him to the door and said, "This is your home tonight, and this is your key tonight." At this time, we knew that even home was part of the drama. It turns out that what he left this morning was nothing more than "last night's home".
And one of the few scenes in the film that can be determined to be real is the moment when Oscar meets his lover that year. But even if they meet, the lover sings "Where Were We?", declaring that this true love can't be compatible with the present world in the past.
The end of the film is also very interesting. When the female assistant finishes her work and prepares to get out of the car and return to her private life, she chooses to put on a mask carefully. It's really an irony. She can be calm in the false work task, but she can't face her real life.
3. Future movies and conservative content.
Returning to the content of this movie, we found that although it widens the boundaries of “false” and makes “false” swallow up “real”, even though it imitates and deconstructs several movie genres at the same time, But we still see many familiar stories-adolescent daughters are not good at interacting with others and are afraid of inferiority, old people's confession before death, vendetta and murder, loneliness after the reunion of old lovers...growth, love, grudges, death …All these topics have actually been said thousands of times by us. People will always solve the answers to these questions, but they will never be able to solve them.
For this reason, this movie, which points to the future on the carrier, is still conservative in content. Perhaps we can say that no matter how people develop and renovate formal methods, they will eventually face those few problems.
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