Sunday, November 29, 2015
Jacques Coulardeau at Academia.edu (36)
LARS VON TRIER
TEN TITLES
ELEVEN FILMS OR SERIES
AN OVERLOOK
POLITICALLY
CONTROVERSIAL
OR SEXUALLY AND
EXPERIENTIALLY PARANOID
ANTISEMITE OR
SOCIALLY IRRESPONSIBLE
Dr Jacques
COULARDEAU
In the cinema
I am trying to find out if Marshall MacLuhan was right and what he would say in
front of global and universal virtual communication. Would he accept the idea
that the cinema or TV camera is only the extension of the human eye? I think he
could say a telescope or a microscope are extensions of the human eyr, but the
cinema or TV camera (is it the same in both cases?) is the extension of a lot
more. Editing, acting, stage and decor designing, music and sound and many
other artistic elements do not make this camera a simple extension of the human
eye but of the human mind and of the human imagination. It is a lot more than
an eye, artificial or not. It is a door to unpredictable communication with the
world. What does it mean for the human subject?
Lars von
Trier is special in that direction. He projects onto his films a Post Traumatic
Stress Syndrome of a great originality. He is not able to overcome the idea
that man is evil, sinful and that all men and women are dominated, manipulated
and commanded by a criminal mind. Is Lars von Trier the apostle of the human
slaves, the human beings enslaved to their desires, ambitions, crimes, criminal
delights and murderous lust?
Lars von Trier is obsessed by sin,
death, punishment, and all his films always come to that kind of an end:
someone is punished for the evil doing of humanity, or of some people around
the main character. We could understand that stance if it came from some
sectarian fundamentalist, for example of the Christian Born Again in Jesus
Christ, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Mormons or some other affiliation of the Christian
faith, not to speak of other religions. That makes some collaborations
surprising like the one with Stephen King because Stephen King is strongly
optimistic about the future of the world because he believes human beings can
face and probably control any nasty negative and morbid situation. In the Dark Tower
Editions La
Dondaine, Olliergues, Sep 1, 2015
Research Interests:
Future Studies, German Studies, Marshall McLuhan, Original Sin, Guilt,Future of humanity, WW2, Global Village, and Seven Capital Sins
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 2:20 PM 
