Influence

He tries to make an emphasis that the human body and the film are alike. I didn’t fully understood it, but he says that “we are both appreciators and victims of material existence”. That the body and film, both touch, expedient, and desire. I took an interest in his idea that “we might think that all this is our own discovery, that we are actually responsible for all this. Yet we did not make up any of these possibilities… We did not make up our emotions”. As a machine of ideas, we think that most of our ideas are new, twisted, or unimaginable. In most of the cases, more than we want them to be, have already being done. We, as avant-garde, did not invented the warm water. To touch and twist, or modernize, it can change an old idea to new. However, we should have always in mind that “The filmmaker seeks the safety net of an idea, or something to accomplish that is already known.” Don’t be afraid, there will always be somebody out there that will get it and like it.

As I read, I got his point, but what happens when I change it a little. He was explaining about Voyage to Italy, he says that “these two people are stuck, each in their own view of life and their view of each other”. What would happen if he change his sentence about the couple and about each other, and use the producers (directors, cast, and everyone) and the audience? Both are stuck in the entertainment desire, the producers with an idea of what the audience wants and their lives, while the audience is expecting maybe cheesy film and have their own view of the other. At the very end, the relation between the producers and the audience is forever changing, “they snap at one another to the point of absolute impasse, until there's no way out except through divorce or renunciation”. Some audience and producers will give up on each other.

I will agree that film, television, radio, mass media and communication, and all of them, of course that changes our lives, so it does not surprise me that in his case “everyone was completely accessible and vulnerable to one another, looking at each other, all strangers”. Does anybody remembers what Wall-E did to the audience? People suddenly started to recycle, be green, and environmental. Influence is everything and will always be everything.