by Jack Brown
Welcome home Guwap. Harmony Korine explores the raw, hyperbolic extent to which partially clothed, amoral, hot-and-ready college girls are willing to go in order to achieve their god-given right of Spring Break. Korine curates a tailored critique of a less-than-niche demographic of depraved, college aged dudes and bitchez in the form of a hyper stylized liquid narrative.
0 Comments
by Jack Brown“What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power,
The Will to Power, and the power itself in man. What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, That residence is overcome.” -Friedrich Nietzsche The pursuit of power and to fulfill the ambition of the will is intrinsic in human motivation, the soul guides the body to create and change as it sees fit. Arrogance is the disillusionment to accomplish the task the soul wishes to have fulfilled. Only the temporal results of the will ambition merit any gravity. Idealism is in a constant state of cheap flux (e.g. Tom’s ideals as a philosopher). Failure to comply to an individual’s Will to Power or become subservient to another’s is the fault of the individual and no one else. The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. The body of Grace suffers the schadenfreude of Dogville’s extortion, the soul of Grace now hangs from it’s hands on perpendicular slabs of wood; a martyr to the notion of innate altruism. The earthly implications of Grace’s humanitarian will are utterly antithetical to the goals of her will due to her naive arrogance. Grace believes in the inherent good in humanity and seeks to belong inside of an intimate dynamic since her family dynamic is too egregious for her taste. Whereas, Tom believes good becomes corrupted because of seclusion and from others' neglect. Grace is at fault due to her ill utilized autonomy. She chooses to work the jobs set before her by the township then allows herself to degregated to the point of slave labor and casual rape. Grace puts her soul at stake for the possibility of makeshift harmony. To say that it’s the Dogville’s nature to exploit and rape is as true as it is ludicrous to say that Dogville’s nature is permissible because it’s their nature. Grace identifies neither of these. Grace’s Will to Power is that Dogville becomes a carrying and interconnected community, but her arrogance leads to believe that she is a turn-the-other-cheek moral savior while her noble cause and desire to belong becomes lost in a harsh and predatory reality. STRAY THOUGHT -- (Production owners take advantage of Grace’s demand within their market by shaping it to their full benefit. A single woman cannot unionize when in need of a place to stay and figurines to buy.) Although Grace is a naive runaway who hasn’t worked a day in her life, she still stands as an individual with the responsibility of autonomy as well as her Will to Power. Grace abjects herself to Tom’s will, (Grace’s will and Tom’s will are distinct from one and other, no matter how much their idealism may coalesce and no matter how thought out Tom’s idealism may be) and the only catharsis Grace can find for all the bad she has arrogantly put upon herself is Tom’s brains exiting his skull. Jack Brown is a former Portland Barista and current fashion and film boy genius working as a model and for The Salt Lake Film Society. He is also a student of Graphic Design at The University of Utah. He hails the only worthy deity, Lord Kubrick, thus spoke Zarathustra. by Jack BrownDivine interchange for the wolves of society, sentinels exact vengeance;
completing a circle of wrongdoing to justice with no rumination of possible redemption. The fatal flaw (or hamartia) is often an early cue that the actions of the anti-hero are morally despicable as well as dismissable to the public at large due to invariable punishment that is sure to proceed. This punishment of a plainly bad individual satiates our societal expectation that unfavorable action is met with a penance. |
ContributorsThe contributors for Cashiers of Cinema are a menagerie of creators devoted to Radical Aesthetics. Meetings are held at the dumpster behind Winkie's. Archives
December 2016
Categories
All
|