I would like to sketch a little reflection from some of my experiences of the viewer. After all someone has already said, we live in a society of spectacle and simulation of which we celebrate the glories and harmful involvement with particular unconscious. The point concerns the Sanremo festival and the film of brothers Joel and Ethan Coen "No Country for Old Men," which I saw at the cinema a nice Saturday evening in good company. You Clearly, the combinations are random, abstract way of example, a larger flow that accompanies us daily and continuously. fact I will not talk about the festival of San Remo by TV critic, I have not followed.
As millions of Italians, I happened to see sights, hear some piece of endless talk shows, also won the boredom especially prime time television. Nor do I want to here a criticism of the film, which I recommend, however, not to be missed especially for those who love the unique cinema (including the learned and popular, the quotations and love for the cinema "classic" Hollywood, humor and sarcasm, the comic and tragic), the Coen brothers.
I would try, if possible, in contrast to the absolute pervasiveness of the communication plan of the aesthetic. Operation is not easy because my intent is hidden behind this reflection and discussion of a philosophical nature - that is aesthetic, for example, reference to a thinker who Perniola Mario, who wrote a pamphlet, which I already mentioned, entitled "Against communication ". The theoretical argument will return it at another time. I hope through my subjective experience (as a phenomenologist) to bring out some key aspects of the speech and the views that I would like to act as the beginning of a reflection on the aesthetics and our society.
Prior experience
I'm at home watching TV, are in the bar and work. If discussions. The Sanremo festival is over. Someone always hoped to see the decline in ratings. What happens in Italy, what happens in the television? A great upheaval. Whose fault is it decreases the audience? The formula, conductor, song or who knows what other machine. The poor Baudo does not admit the debacle but he knows that in his heart he won the television garbage. Because television is garbage and the other in the sense that the festival is not? For shape, for good education, for wholesome entertainment, art that represents? Here this is an important point: the relationship between art and entertainment (but here the discussion is blocked, you can not go beyond the limited scope of content offered contradictory).
Second experience
The Coen brothers' film "No Country for Old Men" is based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy. A film by level set in the desert on the border between Mexico and the United States in which there is a pursuit of death for a hunter, who accidentally finds two million dollars at the scene of a massacre that took place between rival gangs of drug traffickers and a killer ( looking bizarre and absurd) that kills with a deep sense of duty "ethical" and not just economic. The third character is a wise old man and are now disillusioned sheriff, who has seen everything that you could see the worst in life, the deterioration of human relationships in a disorder where every inner and outer life project is doomed to fail. But there's more. Suspension of the absurd gestures, rhythms, and narration and dialogue emerge Ask yourself deeper into the case and the need, about who or what decides life and death, how to draw an impossible moral conduct for a humanity that seems to break up a fistful of dollars (just to give a quote ...). The three players chasing the one reflected in the hall without being able to avoid his fate, or that of humanity that such a waiver to be. A short film show, an aesthetic experience and artistic significant.
Trying to reflection.
The festival San Remo is a great machine spectacular - to communicate. It was, and to some extent still is, the moment of self-representation of a nation, better than a company, which is reflected in the sparkle in his carefree ways and lifestyles more dominant. But like any form of communication is self-contradictory, confused, omnivorous, autoriproduttiva, a-symbolic, devoid of content, indifferent, interested in the economic machine that holds, falsely democratic approval instead of differences.
Not that the films of the Coen is also surrounded by channels of communication and subject, as it were, the spotlight communication, but there is something missing, which is in shadow (say Perniola), which nevertheless accounts, opening up new opportunities, call content, let us not fall back on ourselves. Of course one goes to the movies for fun, but if you search for the Coen then it is not only what you want and you can get. That's important.
The Sanremo festival is full of himself, but never can be revived will be different from himself, now devoid of symbolic life is just imagination expired.
brief conclusion.
They are two different experiences of being in the world. The first (Sanremo) is the world of mass-communication media, whose influence now extends to culture, politics and art, "seems to be the magic wand that turns the inconclusiveness, the retraction and the confusion on the major weaknesses trial of strength. " The second opening of different perspectives, in which cast doubt on the horizon of meaning and acquired resist totalitarian indifference that surrounds us.
The characters in the film make a gesture that unites them. They sit in front of a television turned off. The screen can see its image. We can understand how each is a reflection of the other but basically they are all projections of the same screen that has absorbed the soul returning to the emptiness and loneliness that surrounds them.
Ulrich
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