2008年1月7日 星期一

Dimensions Of Dialogue



Film─Dimensions Of Dialogue(Part1)
Age─1982
Director─Jan Svankmajer
Runtime─5:15 min

Country─Czech Republic(捷克)

This is a study, decidedly pessimistic,
Of some of the base types of dialogue people have with each other,

And the ways that these dialogues can go horribly awry.

In the first segment, an exercise in forced conformity,
Svankmajer "brings to life" a famous painting by Arcimboldo,
Painter known for his portraits of human faces made of fruits and vegetables.
This segment has the feel of a relief painting in motion...
The plane of existence is flat, but all objects are 3-dimensional.

The "vegetable head" animatedly waltzes across the "landscape" which it inhabits...
A rough-looking wooden platform of some sort,
Until it meets another head, constructed of mechanical drafting products.


The two attack each other, until one has been "eaten" by the other
(the vegetables "lose").
After "eating", the winning head vomits up the loser,
Who takes on a look which is a rough hybrid of the two.

Of course, the two heads attack each other again.

This goes on, with an occasional new head getting involved,
Until both heads are identical bald human men.
They then vomit multiple replicas of themselves.



Jan Svankmajer那怪誕詭譎的動畫風格每次總讓人感到耳目一新!
此篇為Dimensions Of Dialogue(思維的深度)3部曲中之第1部
3步曲在探討的都是我們生活中常面對的問題:溝通與消費
(不過作者用Dialogue這個詞,可想而知他是想以較偏哲學方角度來分析此議題)

故事核心的3個角色─蔬菜頭.廚具頭.文具頭
彼此攻擊.吞噬對方.被吞噬
廚具頭殘暴的料理完蔬菜頭後,遇到文具頭被它搗個稀爛
遇到蔬菜頭的文具頭亦被食物的髒漬污染

隨著這個過程 漸漸的我們再也分不出那個是
蔬菜頭?廚具頭?文具頭?

人與人之間的關係 吃與被吃的循環
其實大家原來都是一樣的

我們不斷重覆著相同的行為 也使得別人重覆相同的行為















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