Thursday, October 16, 2008

Pleasure vs. Unpleasure

Weekend can be described as a black comedy film that uses dark humor as a way to pleasure the audience. The film spins every aspect of "normal" cinematics and does not try to entertain the spectator, but tries to change the spectator. Godard turns away from normal cinema and changes the way he presents his fantasy in his film. he tries to connect his film on many different levels, and this is complicated. Roland and Corrine are an example of how he takes the normal pleasures of a married couple and tries to bring out the humor in their absurdities as people. What is normal cinema of a married couple? Is it one falling in love with the other and living happily ever after? Or is it them slowly killing the father to receive his inheritance? Or the constant showing of dead bodies as if they are just objects lving to please the main charatcers? Cinema is designed to create this fantasy toward the spectator where they image themselves doing something that is an idea, not real. As long as the image is there, you cannot eliminate it. The crude images shown in the film are trying to provoke the spectator into imagining an image similar to that in the film as if they were the antagonist, thus creating a negative feeling toward cinema resulting in an unpleasurement. However, if one likes the ideas dark comedy represent, then they would see the scenario as pleasurement. They are connected in the way that if one makes you happy, its pleasure and if it doesn't, its not.

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