Thursday, 4 November 2010

Structuralism and Binary opposition.

This lecture was quite interesting to me as I never thought of it before, It was interesting to find out that we humans think of everything in compare to something else- comparing each thing, what it is or not. in example we know what is light by knowing what is darkness. 

Ivan put forward a nice example at the lecture with sea and sand we can stand on, saying its under constant cycle or rotation... same relates to light and dark... and even me!!! Like my girlfriend says "your halo being held by devil horns". We humans constantly under cycle of doing bad things and good things too, most of us somewhere in the middle. This middle is called the zone of anomaly. 

The anomaly zone is the middle ground between the opposites such as cyborgs (half human half robot). It's used a lot in movies as it makes characters more interesting, it attracts us to them, as they may have interesting background or anything like that. 

In example frankenstein movie story was remade many times based on peoples reaction to this middle ground.

After the lecture with Ivan we had a seminar where we were shown quite interesting movie where everything was absolutely mixed up and opposite from normal, I dont remember the name of the animation movie tho, but i found it quite interesting after I thought of it for some time, that in example light in it was considered as evil and darkness as good, apart from that there was few more things that got my attention. 

This lecture will be good to look back on and consider for future work to use when necessary for making my own films.



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