La Societe du Spectacle

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Audience Member Uma crítica à sociedade em que as imagens são mais importantes do que a vida, em que um cinegrafista filma a morte de alguém sem ajudá-la porque a imagem tem mais valor do que a vida de uma pessoa. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/15/23 Full Review Audience Member "The contemptible man is the true spectacle." His analysis of the spectacle is intriguing, but his social analysis using Marxist theory is reaching; I tend to side with Baudrillard when he says "Class is fundamentally meaningless." The thought of the spectacle should be introduced to all youth. They should learn to be conscious of it and how it can affect people, e.g., Hitler burned down his own government building, the Reichstag, to evoke a reaction, creating a pseudo-reality. While the spectacle doesn't tend to be for a military end (today it's usually for some bourgeois end), it is, none the less, used everyday. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member "La Société du spectacle is a 1973 film by Situationist Guy Debord based on his 1967 book of the same title. It was Debord?s first feature-length film. The 90 minute film took a year to make and incorporates footage from The Battleship Potemkin, October, Chapaev, The New Babylon, Shanghai Gesture, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Rio Grande, They Died With Their Boots On, Johnny Guitar, and Mr. Arkadin, as well as other Soviet films, industrial films, news footage, advertisements, many still photographs, and footage of semi-naked women. Events such as the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald (who assassinated U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1963), the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1938, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution and the Paris riots in May 1968 are represented, and people such as Mao Zedong, Richard Nixon, and the Spanish Anarchist Durruti. Throughout the movie, there is both a voiceover (of Debord) and inter-titles from "Society of the Spectacle" but also texts from the Committee of Occupation of the Sorbonne, Machiavelli, Marx, Tocqueville, Emile Pouget, and Soloviev. Without citations, these quotes are hard to decipher, especially with the subtitles (which exist even in the French version) but that is part of Debord?s goal ?to problematize reception? (Greil and Sanborn) and force the viewer to be active." (Wikipedia) Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member i dunno what to say abt this movie...it is really abt spectacle. however, i admit i really cannot understand it listening to the French men's emotionless voice while reading the English subtitle. Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Je n'ai pas encore tout compris. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member 'A sociedade do espetáculo' O texto vale 4 estrelas e meia, mas o filme, como filme em si, é difícil de acompanhar. Ou lê-se as legendas ou presta-se atenção nas imagens. As legendas às vezes são rápidas, e o pensamento que elas transmitem é complexo, aí eu me perdia o tempo todo. Só entendi alguma coisa porque já tinha lido o livro, mas quem não leu, assistindo o filme com legendas, dificilmente vai capturar algo relevante. Podia existir uma versão dublada em português, seria excelente. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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