fialleril:right before i went to see this #i watched the video where someone re-saturates a selecti
fialleril: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 (via elucipher) -- source link
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