Wengelian totalitarianism is a parody of fascism, Stalin's Soviet Union, and Mao Zedong's Chinese society. "Mr. Wengel" symbolizes the leader, the uniform gestural uniform symbolizes the domination of the ideological state apparatus, the internal unity and xenophobia symbolize ultra-nationalism - all this fits the whole imagination of a typical ideology, but only "Fantasy Imagination". Wengelian ideology is not really ideology precisely because it is so much like ideology. It is ignored that in this postmodernist society, the real ideology is precisely based on the criticism of ideology. The role of ideology is not to make us realize that we have become inhuman, on the contrary, ideology plays a role when we say that ideology is not everything and that we can still be ourselves under the mask of ideology when. So when Mr. Wengel gave his first class, we viewers had a bad feeling that we were not infected by his vision precisely because he lacked real ideological utility.
What Mr. Wengel established is a pseudo-ideological model, which can control the students in the film, but not the audience in front of the film, and it is we who really need to get out of ideology. The successful operation of an ideology requires a certain distance from its superficial structure, and a step-by-step identification will ultimately only destroy the ideological edifice. This is also the fate of Tim in the movie. He is infinitely loyal to the "wave", but his pious performance in every event will only attract laughter from the audience - precisely because he is too close to ideology, but instead Pull the audience further away. On the contrary, Carlo, she was aware of the tragic result of the "wave" from the beginning, and made many attempts to save it, so what really woke people up was Carlo who always stood on the opposite side? The answer is quite the opposite.
Carol did put in a lot of effort, but she didn't and couldn't destroy The Wave. On the contrary, it was her criticism that aroused unanimous confrontation among the members of the wave - this is another evidence that "ideology takes its self-criticism as its core". When the "wave" faces external resistance, it is when it is more powerful, because the members of the ideology are more willing to "swim in the collective consciousness" and make themselves part of the supernatural entity. What really caused the "wave" to disintegrate, but it was within it, Tim, who was most loyal to the wave, disintegrated the wave with one hand. His immediate and complete identification with the ideological machine ultimately led to death. And his death exposed the meaningless nature of the entire illusion and disintegrated the "wave".
Let's go outside the classroom, before the class, before the pseudo-ideology of the "wave", what is the real life of young people? Carnivals, drugs, total madness, isolated individuals, meaningless lives—this is precisely the real ideology that is happening all the time - in our postmodern society, all kinds of signifiers revolve around With the nonsense-centred movement, post-industrial capitalism symbolizes the individual by providing an infinite surplus of pleasure. The reason why Wengel's thought experiment does not constitute a complete critique of reality, nor is it an ideological ontology that stands on the opposite side, is precisely because, ironically, all Wenger's activities are based on the consciousness of reality. Form acquiesced. As repeatedly emphasized before, "ideology contains an anti-ideological core", and it never worries that Wengel's "wave" will overwhelm the social structure, because the result of the wave is not the return of young people to meaningless lives Did you hit it? From another perspective, the "wave" has become a scapegoat: Tim's death is attributed to a failed attempt at totalitarianism, but in fact, even if there is no wave, the meaningless, isolated life is deduced to the extreme, not the same death ? When we're all talking about "Wave" being too aggressive, have we ever thought that maybe "Wave" failed because it wasn't extreme enough? It cannot carry through the critique of reality to the end, but instead becomes an ideological tool.
Let's look at the end of the film, the young people walk out of the auditorium lost, cameras and reporters waiting for them outside - this is the real ideology, watching with indifference a failure to travel through the illusion, and put everyone back again. Included, including the audience in front of the screen, just like we never escaped.
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