This is the poster of one of my favorite movies, chung king express, which has a really obvious style of postmodernism. The reason why I defined it to a postmodernism movie is mainly three, the first is that the movie has no definite theme, which means the audience can understand its meaning by themselves, in the other word, different audience can have totally different understanding after watching. The second one is that it distorts time. One of the most famous words in the movie is: ‘the closest distance between her and me is only 0.01 centimeters, and after 57 hours, I fell in love with the woman. But she was in love with another man after 6 hours.’ These are all damage to the continuity of time, which made the continuity of time is no more important, instead of it, the collage of each moments became the focus. The third reason is that movie can lead us to imagine a new city which doesn’t exist. The city in the movie isn’t the same one in real life, which is also the result of collage and reengineering. It is consistent with the repetition and no-source from Postmodernism. Everything is for audiences to think alone.
The photograph taken here is from the chanel fashion show 2014 fall/winter, this show is so unique from others, because Chanel decorated the show as a big supermarket, and all the goods in the supermarket were printed with the logo of brand. And all the models who should do catwalk all pretended to shopping in that supermarket. This innovative design connects high fashion and life. It effectively changed our ideas about that fashion is far away from normal life. Because the supermarket was really allowed to visit after the show, which caused that the authors, the audience, the curators, and the environment were all participants in that art work.
This is the photograph in the movie Truman show, which is about Truman finally decided to leave the ridiculous city he lived, which was a lie, his life was a show to everyone, in the other word, everyone in that town knew who he is instead of himself. Some comments about the film are mainly to criticize the unscrupulous modern media nowadays, and some others think that this movie has a deeper philosophy meaning: “Existence” is a fraud, “self” is a fraud, the world around you is carefully planned, and you are the pet. The environment around is objective existence but is an unsympathetic scam.
Liu Xinyi
http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-filmtv-48278-1.shtml, postmodernism in movie, 2003/3/5
https://baike.baidu.com/item/后现代主义/99666?fr=aladdin, postmodernism
https://www.weibo.com/bagszhuyejunlt?refer_flag=1001030102_&is_all=1&is_search=1&key_word=chanel超市#_0, chanel fashion show fall/winter 2014, 2014/3/5
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https://www.weibo.com/bagszhuyejunlt?refer_flag=1001030102_&is_all=1&is_search=1&key_word=chanel超市#_0, chanel fashion show fall/winter 2014, 2014/3/5
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