Written by Lucy Galvis.
Postmodernism
is a process that in my opinión started at the end of 19th Century with changes
in different áreas of knowledge. We have four main characters at these period,
Marx, Freud, Einstein, and Van Gogh, who proposses new ways of understanding
reality. Arts as a reflexión of society explored and took to the border new
emotions, topics, and situations. Anyhow, changes are slow, many classic forms
from many centuries before were preserved being the main characteristic the
Aristotelic way stories are constructed with a start, a development, and an
ending. We still get movies based on naturalism with actors from Stanivslasky
school that construct characters more or less like real people. These pictures
preserve too logical time and space structures. Is technology development which
leads to new montage effects, the formats mix and flashbacks, given films its own
language different from literature, theater, music and fine arts.
Photography
and Cinematography changed painting since the cameras could get similar images
from the object shooted and then multicopying it as in printing press. Walter
Benjaming explains this process on his essays about the technical
reproductibility impact on modernity. At the same time media ended taking
images at a high pace to our televisión device, so daily life became faster. Visual
artists were changed for the new technology and no longer contracted for
wealthy families as traditional so arts moved through out experimental forms
with new materials and conceptualisms. This leds to a viewers’ free
interpretation of messages from a constructed reality far away from reality,
nurturing mainly musical cinematógraphy with surreal stories, actors talking
directly to spectators, and the breaking of narrative systems as well as social
ways of thinking, conventionalisms and cultural traditions.
Cinematography
started a revisión of previous referents, and many musicals came from
literature and theatrical titles until a complete desmitification of heroes or
making them more human. During a period of time there was a nostalgia of the
past, but slowly but surely, montage started to be faster, baroque and
aggresive, with the creation of beings and soul’s states with exploration of
reality and fiction frontiers. Images became more important than contents.
New
wars on 70´s take to a skepticism or a disenchaintment in the story treatment,
at the same time that appeared on musical movies explicit sex and violence with
foul language without censorship, and taboo subjects and drugs consumption, and
extreme human conditions. Moral was argued that took to protagonists serial
assassins to become in heroes of their stories. Directors didn´t judge the
characters’ actions in order that spectators built up their own opinión, replacing
absolute values as God, Fatherland, Science for little tales about everyday
life, as well as, the appearance of topics related to multiculturalism, sexual
diversity, new family types, and ecology.
Some
postmodern movies are Chicago, a movie based on a book which tells a 20’s story
about Roxie, a singer and dancer who kills her producer and goes to jail but
finds a lawyer that helps her to scape from death penalty and finally triumph
as an artist. The movie remarks feminism, ambition out of limits, it shows
strong courageous women that are capable to defend themselves from abuse and
discimination; Mamma Mia tells the story of a woman that doesn´t know who her
father is and got three options and decide to go and meet every one of the
posible dads; and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, based on an english, 1974’s
theatrical staging about homosexuality.
Chicago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrrz54UtkCc
Mamma Mia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36vwk1IZWTA
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bc80tFJpTuo
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