The New Literalism Plaguing Today’s Biggest Movies

Warrior in prison cell. His guard is approaching and the wooden sword that he will get as soon as he earns his freedom. The warrior holds, the door of the uninterrupted cell is used to hit the guard down, and put the tip of the sword on the guard’s throat. He leads her as one of them might offer, rough and horrific death. Then, for some reason, swinging back and forth, the warrior shouts in the body, “wood or steel, is still a point!”
A sick pole lies in a luxurious bedroom. His young wife, who digs gold, enters her lover, who is sarcastically talking to him about the condition of the old man. “What do you think of this boner you got?” Unintended shots improving, indicating pointed peak in his lap. He pulled his clothes aside to reveal the golden bow and the arrow that his wife shoots. Then, for some reason, while the strong arrow penetrates it in its chest, he says: “You are a rude Wall Street, this is your final bearing.”
Blue -Blue Blond Real Estate Train goes to the mayor’s office to suggest a new project. Wraps a style on the office: a small black tower with fully golden letters in reading it.Trump Tower“He gives him Spiel, with a loud evaporation. His lawyer offers a few words to soften the deal. Then, for some reason, the mayor asks,” and what will you call it? “The Mongols tend and tell us what we already know:” Trump Tower. “
These scenes, from modern films “The second wrestler“” “MegalopolisAnd “and”trainee“Respectively, examples between many – a lot! – when his new craftsmanship started. This is not a new type but a new style. Each of these films belongs to this type of work – work/adventure, science fiction/drama, drama/history, respectively – and none of them seems to be interested in cinematic traditions of documentary realism, not even biological biot.
When I say craftsmanship, I do not mean realistically or literally clearly. I mean the craftsmanIstAs when we say something on the nose or heavy, it demands us far away or outperforms a dead horse. Since these phrases indicate that the re -determination of a clear screaming makes a kind of violence for art. “Point is still a point!”
There is Mimi wandering from the “Family Guy” episode in which Peter, Peterfamilias, admits animation, for his family that he had never cared about “The Godfather”. Why not? “He insists on himself,” he says. Many modern products deserve this contempt – literally. It has become so bad that he recently, the highest courtesy that I can mobilize even better than them: “Well, at least movie”.
The spread of this trend was clear in films that were nominated for the best image in Academy Awards this year. Many of them reflect the phenomena that we were exposed to for some time. We got a science fiction supplement “,”Sandin dunes: Part Two“Prequel imagination,“ bad guys ”, both of which use CGI to the ends of operation than fictional goals. We got another biological biu from Bob Dylan,”Anonymous“Who ends with the real Dylan clips so that we can see the quality of Timothy Chalamite, another entrance to the social media to compare old celebrities and new celebrities playing in movies.
Until the origins of the season, if we can call them, they felt craftsmanship. Sean Baker “Anura,” the Best photo winnerIt is the “Cinderella story”, which is self -described by the sex factor that falls in the oldest trick in the book: the rich trick that you want to marry. After the hasty Vegas vehicles, the heroine says that she wants a wing for the princess in Disneyland for the honeymoon, in which she is crying useful, “Cinderella!”
Corali Vargate “Article“Less honor to summarize the classic classics of the knee in the body, the elder celebrity’s fear of displacement by throwing Demi Moore as a fifty-year-old star is born self-generated by genetically-through her back.
Jacques Audiard’sEmilia Perez“It is characterized by a set of scenarios full of disease (what if the Mexican Cartel leader underwent a gender surgery? “I see, I see, I see. A man to a woman, or a woman for a man? “A man for women.” “From the penis to the vagina.”
The most prey to this convenience also fell. Ramel Ross “Nickel“Depends on Colorson Whitheid’s novel, which is not shaken by the abuse of black boys in the reform school. Ross links the movement with historical footage, and it is cut from the movie“ The Defiant One ”and the deviant sunlight from emotion, which deceives the story with chaos of arrows. His experiences with the camera of the first person Puff feel a tense effort to unify the development of a conspiracy that he knows Whitheid with more accuracy and ventilation-and in the third person, by the way.
Brady Corbiti topic “Brutal” Technical ambitionThe film is on the horizon, as if it was prohibited by a concrete form by the buildings designed by the title of the title. Followed by the other portine. We get an inverted snapshot of the statue of freedom to inform us that immigration turns your life into a turbine. In fact, if you are an artist and immigrant, the American dream will have sex with you literally at the back. (Who is the brutal now?)
Corbet is criticized for the use of artificial intelligence to enhance the dialects of the Hungarian actors. Other production techniques reveal a deeper commitment to new craftsmanship. For most of the film, Vistavision, which is the format of offers of the fifties, is used, which I will confess to making a dough shot of an Italian marble traveler, but it seems unjustified. The conclusion, which was appointed in Biennial in Venice in the 1980s, moves to a tourist video format that pushes home a point around participation in the arts.
The best international winner, Walter Salis “I am still here“These vibrant grammatical grammar rules are merged to the past-Super-8-a similar way. The film, which depends on the memoirs of the novelist and script writer Marcelo Robbins-Bayfa, follows a Brazilian middle-class family where its members wrestle with the effects of the military dictatorship that disappeared the father in the seventies. As Salles. Put it“The idea of merging Super 8 was to restore the immediate and vitality of that family and defects, as well as, from the means.” In other words, it is not enough to show your movie how life was at that time. You should look like movies also look.
The French scene Roland Partis formulated the term Studio As for the photographs that seemed to represent a “collection of classic information”: humanitarian stories, “political testimony or. Good historical scenes” produce “a kind of general and enthusiastic commitment.” This is useful, on his way, but it is not an art. Why do these modern films insist on reformulating this studio, these familiar source materials, this aura of the past? Are they trying to compete with the new popularity of documentary models by absorbing them?
I think something else is happening. The point should not be vibrant or fact-based on facts, but it is familiar and the wording of the word, it can be predicted. Artists and the masses sometimes defend these clarity as democratic, and it is a way to reach everyone. It is, in fact, waiver. We forget the deterioration of art in the content. The concept content is reduced. The concept became a remarkable advertisement.
Saying the calm part loudly has given the loud field. This is true in our cultural life as is the case in our political life, which appears to be a badly written conclusion, so in your face is Bonzi plans, Nazi greeting, and is unable to technology for the latest second. This feeling of unambiguous catastrophe may be the reason that we continue to return to the provided of cultural comfort.
Critic Anna Corblu, author of 2024 Book “Immediate: Or, very late capitalist styleHe indicates that our time from the “intensity and experimental crisis” led to the aesthetics of “realism without representation”, which prove “anything that requires time to interpret instead of rapid absorption. . . Any confusion or mystery. ”Kornbluh examples of art and pop culture, like the movie.Unpalatable gemstonesAutomatic fictional novels are all betrayed this mediation removal.
But it seems that the artifacts of the new craftsmanship adopt mediation, even to double them with their complementary signs, historical shots, and involuntary convulsions. Many works specifically insist on the value of the mystery-that the liberal Chipolith is “complicated”-only in an educational way. While Kornbluh finds an immediate narcissist, I tend to diagnose us instead with what Freud called the coercion of repetition, a phenomenon that links it to the engine of death.
Instead of allowing us to restore the repetition of repetition, this hoosen actually brings us back. As Freud writes, we are “Repeat Pubble material as a contemporary experience instead of. . . to remember It is something that belongs to the past. ”This will actually copy and paste pictures of history on its beauty and strange power – devouring SIMULACRUM.
Repetition is the basis for all art, and when you press maximum, some of the best art. But there is a repetition and there is a repetition. Freud’s idea to remember, the inaccurate repetition of what came before, is the place where creativity appears – this slight drift from the origin that provides something unlikely. It is a distorted observation in the song Nina Simon, and it is a flat plant from Samuel Picky, Tribe Warhol, and the flat David Lynch,
The cousin of the communication of the repetition family is the repetition, which is the term almost onomatopoeic for the unnecessary re -customization. This is the average, and to clarify man in time and at work, imposed by artificial intelligence tools. Perhaps because, as they continue to tell us, the age of artificial intelligence here (get used to it!), Its derivative spirit appears to have permeated all forms of media. Everything should be easy to follow and understand, simple enough to get to know and classify it.
Instead of the goal of the unique, which may penetrate the fog of distraction, the art surrendered to the marketable generalities: stock music on Spotify, Soporword flows of Netflix content. Fashion takes advantage of a long tail from the overall appearance: we all wear Doc Martens, but no one is actually the Gothic. Photo generators come out of the Ersatz versions from Da Vinci and Van Gogh. In all cases, the normal comment slowly disintegrates, and leaks to it in BoldFace addresses or interpreters who talk about sound or cover the image.