"…if our social
reality itself is sustained by a symbolic fiction or fantasy, then
the ultimate
achievement of film art is not to recreate reality within the narrative
fiction, to seduce us into
(mis)taking a fiction for reality, but, on the contrary, to make
us discern the fictional aspect of
reality itself, to experience reality itself as a fiction"
(slavoj zizek, the fright of real tears, 2001:77).
for further
exploration:
Essay:
"Descartes meets Blade Runner,"
Prof. Stephen Asma,
Columbia College Chicago
Film:
Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
Film: Hail Mary, J-L. Godard
