DO NOT MISS THIS FILM
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| And Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt |
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Neo had this book in his desk drawer in THE MATRIX
Don Jon is a movie on how we get to THE MATRIX.
It takes awhile but you have fun doing it.
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| Dirty Sexy Dancing. Scarlett is hot, hot hot and she won't put out. At least not until she gets what she wants first. Him. Into her interfaced fantasy.
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| Dirty Sexy Laptop |
JGL has been sensitizing himself to feel erotic looking at porno. He is becoming Pavlov's dog, salivating to the bell, - whoops, the nekkid bod and ass of the porno queen of the moment. He jerks off thus reinforcing himself for his gaze on the porno queen - or princess. His sexual responses are conditioned to the Barbie porn videos, not a real life Barbie. Just a simulacrum in Simulated Reality, and he goddamn well prefers her or her Barbie sisters. And his responses are now Hullian prepotent responses.
Joseph Wolpe, M.D. Father of Behavior Therapy.
See any theory can be used against you.
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| Mark Tansey - Still Life Aside here: Mark Tansey is giving us the GREAT 21st century Foucauldian CUT in art history Still Life is a painting of this movie without a happy ending. |
Fuck real life. Gimme the simulacrum willya.
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| The Wondrous Julianne Moore Enter Julianne Moore, a REAL woman. Who wants real? Who wants intimacy? Gimme that porn star willya. |
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| No victim's body,no criminal, no crime scene,no capture,no punishment The Perfect Crime What Baudrillard is saying here is that our reality is stolen from us in homeopathic doses. That way we will not notice it so infinitesimal will those doses be. And we will never know when the boundary blurs, when we lose reality, when we are in Simulated Reality, and when we can't get back. As Jon learns when he can no longer close his eyes, masturbate to his own fantasies, make them up. His imagination has been stolen from him. His ability to contemplate has been stolen from him (Walter Benjamin folks.) His mind has been stolen from him. His life has been stolen from him. And he doesn't even know it. The Perfect Crime |
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| Jean Baudrillard, the Bear and the Screen |
This embracing of Simulated Reality is our greatest danger according to Baudrillard. When Simulated Reality is total then we will be in Virtual Reality. Think Hunger Games here: The Districts are Reality, The capitol Panem is Simulated Reality, The Games are Virtual Reality. So who the hell wants reality. Gale didn't. Katniss does but then she really had her fill, an excess, didn't she.
We are all interfaced with the media of our culture. How we fall in love, the courtship, the rituals, the wedding, they marriage, the children, the dog, the house, the mortgage, and so it goes as Vonnegut would say. We are no more free than our pet dogs. We have been conditioned to want what they want us to want. And conditioned to get it the way they want us to get it. How we fuck has been conditioned recently by porn. So we now fuck like porn stars. (Did I do OK honey? Did you get off? Performance anxiety eh.) So we do. We obey them. To do this we Inscribe our bodies (Nietzsche's Inscription of the Body) to fit the template of normality, we think the way we have been taught to think, we do not even have the words to free ourselves from this. Sex is empowered to do this to us. We got rid of repression - we thought so anyway - but what is this? And we are embracing it as fast as we can learn how.
Who will intercede? Who will give us the intervention we need? Who will be our Julianne Moore? And our prepotent responses will undergo spontaneous recovery in the future. Pavlov again, the great one.
Welcome to the Desert of the Real! - Morpheus quotes Zizek
Here's what Joseph Gordon Levitt said about his movie Don Jon:
I wanted to talk about how the media influences people's expectations, Gordon Levitt says. Pornography is a huge, huge part of our media culture. The message Don Jon is trying to bring to light - and make fun of - is reducing people, especially women, to nothing but sex objects. It happens in music videos, TV shows, movies, and magazines, and so many commercials. Whether it's rated X or approved by the FCC to sell Doritos, the message is the same.
Entertainment October 4, 2013 #1279
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Let me tell you it is so much more than what he thinks it is. It is a fictionalized account of Jean Baudrillard's The Perfect Crime
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| The title is taken from a short story by Jorge Luis Borges. wiki on Borges It was almost all map for Jon. |
I am going right over to hitRECord.org to tell him so.
