Cinema and theatre in agnostic ideology

 The modern cinema makes disappear the border between reality and fiction. We could think that the cinematic narration is a realistic reflection of reality. But it is not. The modern cinema with ideology of gnoseological optimism uses documentary style and naturalistic approach. It makes us forget that it's not real, it's just a cinema. In the cinema we haven't got direct contact with the referent. We have a mediator, which is the camera lens.
  The main trick of mainstream cinema is that it makes us forget that the actors is just an actors who aim at making us empathizing with them. To ensure commercial success scriptwriters exploit simple biological and cultural triggers to involve emotionally. This immediate emotional impact moves the critical reflection to lesser degrees. This creates dissimilarity, diversity, unlikeness, dissemblance, inequality between everyday experience and cinematic presentation. And as a result it generates complexes of mismatches and infinite forms of psychosis.
  But postmodern philosophy of agnosticism critics this modern way to do cinema, by revealing the artificial nature of it self. An example of this is given by Quentin Tarantino, who uses grotesque exaggeration and parody quoting from other mo- vies (Kill Bill, Pulp fiction). Or like David Lynch, who completely avoids sense (Inland empire, Fire walk with me). Or like Yoshihiro Nishimura, using voluntary cheapness of decoration and bad actors (Tokyo gore police).
  In this sense the importance of  theatre is its highlighted and evident decorative character of settings which are limited to a stage, and theatricality of attitudes of actors. This operation, maybe not voluntary, of revealing the artificiality of performance makes us reflect upon the artificiality of “reality” and this reflection leads us to the famous phrase from  William Shakespeare’s As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women, merely Players; They have their Exits and their Entrances, And one man in his time playes many parts,..”.


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