Ну что, кто посмотрел "Убийство священного оленя" (2017)...

Well, who watched “The Killing of the Sacred Deer” (2017) by Yorgos Lantimos and “Square” (2017) by Ruben Estlund? How do you like the films and what are some interesting considerations? And then I caught a glimpse of Russian film critics, and realized that they had practically no interesting, somehow deep thoughts about these films (they can perfectly play with words, graphomania, repeating each other in different forms, but they can fully disassemble films interpreting their symbolism in detail and explaining non-standard moves - not really). The decoding (analysis) of an author’s film, especially when it comes to a story with a mini-plot or an anti-plot (mini plot / empty plot - read more about Story: Substance, Structure, Style and the Principles of Screenwriting by Robert Mackey) is based on the ability to watch the film, revealing oddities and inconsistencies, ask yourself the right questions, give possible answers to them (in fact, compiling a matrix of possible explanations, and marking out incorrect versions in it during the next viewing) and try to quickly add up some kind of system that explains everything, which allows you to see by the end of the viewing some toruyu system around this strange and, at first glance, unsystematic. The main essential question in the analysis of the film is "What exactly did the author want to say?" (key message, super task). If you don’t have a specific answer to it, then you didn’t understand the film (even if at the same time some sort of system of cause-and-effect relations was built in the head in the film, even if you caught the symbolism and part of the allusions, even if you have a feeling that you I fully felt the film to the depths of my soul, as, for example, I had with "Antichrist" Lars von Trier). If you caught the message (the content of the film, the essence), then the second question that you need to ask yourself is why this form of the film was chosen to transmit this content, how exactly this form allows you to convey freshly, innovatively and more fully (than we saw earlier) the author’s view of the issues raised by him. A good example of decoding from [id242 | Aleksey Yozhikov] (but not complete enough from the point of view of symbolism analysis, only the religious prism of interpretation is disassembled, but not ecological, for example, with global warming and all things, and not the feminist that could be expected from Alexey: -)): https://medium.com/@ezhikov/mama-b1f48a810441 # arthouse # parsing films