Excerpts from:
‘Ugly, Creepy, Disgusting, and
Other Modes of Abjection’
by Jela Krečič and Slavoj
Žižek
[…]
In James Cameron’s Titanic
(1997) there is a short shot from above of an unidentified old couple lying
embraced in their bed while the ship is already sinking, so their cabin is
half-flooded and a stream of water is running all around the bed. This shot,
although meant as a realistic shot, creates the impression of a dream scene—a
bed with the tightly embraced couple in the midst of strong flow of water,
touchingly rendering the stability of love in the midst of a disaster. This
detail in an otherwise average commercial movie bears witness to an authentic
cinematic touch, that of making reality appear as a dream scene. A variation of
the same motif are those magic moments in some films when it seems as if an
entity that belongs to fantasy space intervenes in ordinary reality so that the
frontier that separates the fantasy space from ordinary reality is momentarily
suspended.
[…]
One should emphasize the
hyperrealism of such moments; the spectralization of material reality overlaps
with full focus on material objects. How is this paradox possible? There is
only one solution: external reality itself is not simply out there, it is already
transcendentally constituted so that it is experienced as such—as “normal”
reality out there—only if it fits these transcendental coordinates.
[…]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RcVzevWX4U
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