Beautifully Boring: Films Where 'Nothing Really Happens'
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- Опубликовано: 28 окт 2024
- 'Beautifully Boring': Exploring Social Class in 'Nothing Really Happens' films (but specifically looking at 'The Great Beauty' and 'Paterson')
Films referenced:
Paterson dir. Jim Jarmusch
The Great Beauty dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Her dir. Spike Jonze
Before Sunrise dir. Richard Linklater
Somewhere dir. Sofia Coppola
Columbus dir. Kogonada
Mary Janes Not A Virgin Anymore dir. Sarah Jacobson
Ladybird dir. Greta Gerwig
Blue Jay dir. Alexandre Lehmann
Napoleon Dynamite dir. Jared Hess
Bicycle Thief dir. Vittoria de Sica
Pierrot le Fou dir. Jean Luc-Godard
La Notte dir. Michelangelo Antonioni
Le Rayon Vert dir. Eric Rohmer
Nomadland dir. Chloe Zhao
Rome, Open City dir. Roberto Rosselini
Hand of God dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Master of None dir. Aziz Ansari
Sources:
. Slow Movies: Countering the Cinema of Action - Ira Jaffe
. The End of History and The Last Man - Fukuyama
. Slow Cinema (Traditions in World Cinema) - Tiago de Luca
. Asylums - Erving Goffman
. 'Jim Jarmusch's Paterson and the Myth of the Solitary Artist' - www.newyorker....
. 'Relationships in the Age of Consumerism' - socialsciences....
. 'All the Small Things: Jim Jarmusch's Paterson' - brightlightsfi...
. 'The Real-World Consequences of the Manic Pixie Dream Girl Cliche' - www.theatlanti...
. Art and Politics - Walter A. Davis
. The Gift - Lewis Hyde
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Please don't stop making videos. I love cinema and the way you speak about films really touches my soul!
this video is genuinely excellent, deserves way more views. lovely stuff.
So many points brought up in this essay are ideas I've been thinking about, but couldn't quite put the words to. I'm so glad I had the opportunity to watch this and find someone properly phrase them.
I'm going to go make some art I can't monetize, now.
This has revolutionised my filmmaking career. What a pro. Can't wait to see what you do next!!!!!!
Great video. Very researched. I love the nothing really happens like Swimming Pool, Before Sunrise and its sequels.
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I really enjoyed this video essay. It was well-structured and incredibly thought-provoking. Thank you for sharing - Subscribed!
Excellent, I really really enjoyed this. My favorite “type” of film as well
this video essay is so beautiful and expresses many ideas I couldn't articulate until I saw this..thank you :)
6:54-6:58 that reminded me of when I geography class, we learned about settlement or urbanisation, or something, and we were talking about how in inner-city dublin, there were these poorer housing areas, that kinda look like the towers in this video. They were knocked down around the mid-00s, and the poorer areas got slightly richer
Impressed by L'amour L'apres Midi, I'm going through Rohmer's other 5 "Moral Tales". Your thoughts really helped me understand my appreciation for this genre.
Wonderful and thoughtful Emily (Blank)...thanks.
I wonder if the point being missed is that rather than nothing really happening, quite a lot is actually happening but not in the ways we are perhaps programmed to expect, we expect to be spoon fed a story but these 'slow films' demand that we pay attention and perhaps watch it a few time as the film is communicating on a different sensory level.
22:23 This made me realize that only the privileged ones nowadays can afford to live a comfy, cozy, slow and simple life. I saw a lot of youtubers who romanticize that “humble” and “simple” living. All of these cottagecore, off-grid, aesthetic content creators who preach the idea that “sometimes it’s okay to take a break and slow down”. No, it’s not. They are able to afford simple living at the expense of the working class sacrificing their time keeping their platforms alive. Behind a cozy content creator who promotes slow, simple living are the working class who work overtime being exploited with the fear of getting laid off and getting replaced. Only the privileged and the lucky ones are able to escape being expolited in this capitalistic world. This realization is horrid and I don’t think I wanna continue living in this ugly world anymore.
I was going to ask your 'take' on Eric Rohmer, but I see several people have already mentioned his superb film-making. Perhaps you do not include him in your category of 'nothing happens' because although his films are indubitably 'slice of life', they do have a clear storyline.
On another subject entirely...you mention knitting as an example of repetitive activity and compare it to computer games. While knitting is certainly repetitive and can be carried out in tandem with another activity (such as watching your interesting video!) it differs from video games etc by being useful and creative. The knitter ends up with a pullover for her daughter, a shawl for her friend, socks for her father...
Wow what a fun and educational video that is sure to entertain millions
I love this piece of content you created but what really gets me is you don’t make your cut between two clips breathe when there’s a quote involve. Let your audience take the time to read the quote. The cut is so fast that we gasping for air.
You speak out the sentence I feel but don’t know how to put it together ❤
4:23-4:31 that reminds me of that time that we were waiting in our form tutor room for pe to start, and i was sitting alone, staring down to the table, when i overheard a conversation whereby this girl in my class said that she likes to eat dishwashing sponges, which is so disgusting 🤮. She tried to justify it by saying that she only eats a bit of them, but it's still vile 🤢
Well done!
Very interesting insight.
There is more problems in this world than the highfalutin perspective towards world of consumerism, capitalism, isms or "False Nothingness" or Identity etc..If people should see nothingness better head to Sudan or anywhere poverty shows the empty stomach's actions amd response of it is cinematic and artistic... When we sit in the comforts of deterministic world view all looks artistry in nthingness..
How is the bicycle thief and Eric rohmer films boring,you either love them or you don't there is no middle ,it depends on taste but the films i find boring is never beautiful cause the pictures do not give beauty ,it's fucked up that's all ,I don't care if it has got an Oscar or not
Rohmer is the greatest nothing happens film maker, the mundane can be just as compelling as throwing loads of crap at you, I don't agree with the whole capitalism thing though, I'd like to see this take applied to slice of life anime like lucky star which is arguably even more nothing happens than any of these films.
I've been thinking about movies like these because I tend to have trouble getting into new movies/tv since I feel like the plots are fast-paced, and I'll forget a character very name
Omg this video is super good