Mackon's Shtuff

The point is people are always looking for “what does it mean?” by trying to reach what the director or writer intented to do. Never heard of death of the author? This movie is out there, you make of it what you will.

Think differently:

How did it feel to watch?
What’s the relationship between characters like?
What do you think of the scenes?
How do you explain the “contradictions” within the story? The things that apparently don’t make sense?
Can you make a sense out of it?

That’s the fucking point.

This goes for all films, people as to put them in the first place. You are making the film as you view it, if it didn’t click for you, if it felt “bad” than it is bad, period. By asking about the directors intentions or maybe being in our conversation on what does it mean, all that we gain is more references, more ideas, more connections that could make the movie change in our minds and feel better or worse on a second viewing. However, there is no explanation, there never was any. “Normal” films, with regular beggining-middle-end hollywood stories are only understandable because we agree on what it means to a certain point, we have reached a consensus about it, but they are objectively strict to it. Any view is valid and the better you can explain it to others, the more likely it is to spread as a consensus, that’s all.