Tuesday, November 11, 2008
I have been trying to find a recent movie that fits into the Zizek The Terminator category when the trailer for The Strangers popped up as I was watching T.V, and is apparently inspired by true events, and near the end of it, the leading female character asks the question, "Why are you doing this to us?" with the simple reply of, "Because you were home."
To me this is an example of the desire-less drive that we've been talking about in class, which we've mostly attributed to zombie and robot movies. I know this example may be a bit different because of the difficult human aspect, because one can argue that the killers may have had an actual ulterior motive and not just desire-less drive(but the movie doesn't show it). Or is desire-less drive only attributed to actions that cannot be mentally and emotionally weighed?
At the same time I think it also ties into what we've been discussing about The Real, how it is unexplainable, how it is made up of dark desires and how fear stems from it, but is surrounded and kept hidden and in check by Reality. With the thought that the killers deviated from society's accepted norms of reasoning, in which they simply murdered the couple with no other reason then that, they were home. I believe society fears this most because, we need and crave answers and solutions for everything, ever since we were children we have been asking the question "Why?"
To me this is an example of the desire-less drive that we've been talking about in class, which we've mostly attributed to zombie and robot movies. I know this example may be a bit different because of the difficult human aspect, because one can argue that the killers may have had an actual ulterior motive and not just desire-less drive(but the movie doesn't show it). Or is desire-less drive only attributed to actions that cannot be mentally and emotionally weighed?
At the same time I think it also ties into what we've been discussing about The Real, how it is unexplainable, how it is made up of dark desires and how fear stems from it, but is surrounded and kept hidden and in check by Reality. With the thought that the killers deviated from society's accepted norms of reasoning, in which they simply murdered the couple with no other reason then that, they were home. I believe society fears this most because, we need and crave answers and solutions for everything, ever since we were children we have been asking the question "Why?"
# posted by JoyceChan @ 12:34 AM 
