Crazy visual space!
Movies are inherently dream-making, ranging from perfect stories told to unconventional audiovisual spectacle created through video means, and these screen myths have a strong carnival nature.
From the very beginning of cinema, the spectacle that generations of filmmakers set out to create was the imaginative destruction of what Bakhtin's definite and real "first world" was.
This coincides with the subversive and rebellious nature of the carnival: the atmosphere of equality, relaxation and freedom it creates is precisely the subversion of the daily order, and the idealized state of the festival implies the dissolution of authority and class, Bakhtin described the carnival square: "The square concentrates everything unofficial, and in a world full of official order and official ideology, it seems to enjoy the power of "extraterritoriality". ”
Through the reception of carnivalized artworks, people are deliberately putting aside the pressure and meaning given to daily life and work, the joy, humor, and banter on the screen are sought after, and all sensory stimuli are deliberately amplified and extreme.
Bakhtin's original concept of "carnivalization" was created to study the "second world" presented in the novel: "What dominates this world is a special kind of interaction, a free, informal square-like interaction." In the court, churches, doors, and private residences, attention was paid to the hierarchical principles, etiquette, and rules of communication. ”
In his view, with the enlightenment of human nature by the Renaissance, the artistic creation represented by novels has increasingly presented a style similar to that of carnival, which is no longer an individual state of people in a festive atmosphere, but has become the spirit of the times advocated by the literary and art circles, and has become the expression pursued in literary language, and the written world created by writers is also an outlet for people to fight against unsatisfactory reality.
"Carnival has a cosmic nature, a special state of the whole world, a world in which everyone participates in the regeneration and renewal".
Gradually, this creative trend began to exert influence in more and more literary and artistic fields, and a series of theoretical studies arising from this concept also extended to a broader range of art categories, including film, which not only shaped people's acceptance habits but also guided artists' creative concepts.
For Carnival, the square where the masses gather is a grand stage in which various performances, parades, dances, etc. are held, making it a second world very different from everyday life, a utopia that people use to escape the secular order and vent themselves.
What the film creates through several hours of screen viewing is also such a fantastical stage, which has its own complete logical order, and people experience the fantasy of the second world in the isolated space of the cinema.
Audiovisual spectacle has become the most common means of realization, relying on sensory stimulation and even influencing people's values, Douglas Kellner once wrote about media spectacle, which "refers to media cultural phenomena that embody the basic values of contemporary society, guide individuals to adapt to modern lifestyles, and dramatize conflicts and solutions in contemporary society."
It includes all kinds of luxurious scenes created by the media, sports competitions, political events", the pursuit of drama and entertainment is the most important appeal of spectacle, for this science fiction film has made a lot of attempts, from the external shape of space to symbolic meaning.
