"Ideology" here uses its more primitive meaning, "wrong concept." Althusser used to oppose ideology and science. For example, we now have some scientific principles to explain the causes of thunder and lightning, but before that, humans could only use Thor’s hammer or other similar myths to explain them. These myths are An ideology. Conspiracy theories are also an ideology. For example, the demise of the dynasty is due to the peasant war, and the peasant war is also due to the concentration of land. It is basically a conspiracy theory. It connects some potentially related things with the law of cause and effect, which makes people feel "it really makes sense. Ah", but in fact correlation cannot infer causality.
But "no coincidence does not make a book", the essence of the film is to create ideology. For example, in the famous montage experiment of Kurišov, there is no actual logical relationship between the shots, and a complete storyline is made up by the audience's brain. Ideology is created between two shots, so we can make a hypothesis that ideology is produced when information is not complete. For example, our ideology of "fear of ghosts" at night is due to the lack of visual information around the night. The prince's answer to "how to overcome fear of ghosts at night" in Zhihu is to fill up the surrounding information as much as possible. Similarly, Zhang Rong knows that to break the idol worship of Chairman Mao, the first thing to do is to supplement the details of his life: he does not like to take a bath, does not brush his teeth, and is constipated (please take half an hour to imagine various scenarios when your idol is constipated).
"Where are you going, Dad" is said to require 1,000 hours of filming for one episode, and it will only be broadcast for 90 minutes in the end. When watching reality TV shows, I think of Jesse telling Celine on the train about his TV dream in "Love at Dawn": find 365 people, film their 24-hour life, get up, wash your face, brush your teeth, cook, and wash dishes, etc. , Broadcast 24 hours a day, and continuous broadcast 365 days. Celine said who would watch this boring daily life. Jesse said it was called "poetry of day-to-day life." Don’t have music or cute subtitles. I guess it’s a disaster because it obliterates the space for ideological growth. Tian Liang personally experienced that Cindy was embarrassed when he said "Happy Birthday", but when he watched the show, he burst into tears. The show was much more touching than reality. Chicken soup shows like "Moving China" used a few shots to explain a person for decades, and ideology grew savagely between the shots. No wonder the audience watched it sparsely.
Well, finally, why did Charlie Kaufman give up treatment, not listen to McKee's words, arrange a wonderful plot, and talk about a "thought-provoking" truth? His "New York Synonymy" seems to give us the answer:
Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you won't know for twenty years. And you may never ever trace it to its source. And you only get one chance to play it out. Just try and figure out your own divorce. And they say there is no fate, but there is: it's what you create. And even though the world goes on for eons and eons, you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second. Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years , for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really.And so you spend your time in vague regret or vaguer hope that something good will come along. Something to make you feel connected, something to make you feel whole, something to make you feel loved. And the truth is I feel so angry, and the truth is I feel so fucking sad, and the truth is I've felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don' t know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.ve felt so fucking hurt for so fucking long and for just as long I've been pretending I'm OK, just to get along, just for, I don't know why, maybe because no one wants to hear about my misery, because they have their own. Well, fuck everybody. Amen.
The previous is about the impossibility of ideology: Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true. There are a million little strings attached to every choice you make; you can destroy your life every time you choose. But maybe you will not know for twenty years And you may never ever trace it to its source..
followed by saying Jack's unreliable:. you are only here for a fraction of a fraction of a second Most of your time is spent being dead or not yet born. But while alive, you wait in vain, wasting years, for a phone call or a letter or a look from someone or something to make it all right. And it never comes or it seems to but it doesn't really.
Because Kaufman's feeling of loser is deeply buried in his heart, there is only one reason for him to give up the treatment of successful people like McKee: who is not loser after all? What is your meaning to the whole mankind, and what is the whole mankind's meaning to the universe.
Indeed, who cares what McKee says?
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