blackstump: #right before i went to see this#i watched the…
Tuesday, June 16th, 2015#right before i went to see this#i watched the video where someone re-saturates a selective group of frames from man of steel#simply to show how much colour the studio deliberately drained out of every shot; how narrow and dull the palette is#which is pretty emblematic of a lot of contemporary sci-fi; esp. after the dark knight#and i get it. as a visual shorthand it’s nothing if not efficient#no better way to show that the world’s gone to hell than to drain all the colour out of it#no better way to announce your ‘dark and gritty’ hellscape where everything and everyone’s compromised and corrupted#shades of grey as the dominant aesthetic and ethical stance#it’s neat. yeah.#i’ve seen mad max criticised for being too ‘simple’ and its morals too ‘easy’#because god forbid we have a narrative that points at the sexual subjugation of women and says ‘this is wrong’#and keeps saying ‘this is wrong’#doesn’t muddy those waters doesn’t offer any kind of qualifier#’this is wrong this should be opposed with all our strength’#and at the same time says ‘you can come back’#however low you’ve fallen however weird and hurt and broken and voiceless you are#all you need is someone to look you in the eyes and see a person who can be saved#and it says this visually too: look how beautiful the world is; even when it’s dying and cruel#look at the deranged and terrible and gorgeous ways humans adorn their survival#there’s something haunting and lovely even in the most awful and barren of places; the lands of only salt and ashes#who wants to live for a world with no colour in it just a dull grey kind of half-life#the world in mad max is horrifying it’s bloody and feral and apocalyptic#but you believe it’s worth living for#because there’s hope and weird screaming optimism in every frame#pessimism’s easy#it’s much harder to hope at the end of the world#mad max#fire and blood#long post (via elucipher )
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