Post modern films

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Post modern films
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Post Modern movies often use film to comment
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A Postmodern Love Story?
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In Run Lola Run the black and white scenes are
out flashbacks
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Why Animation?
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Run Lola Run plays like a video game
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The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.
That's a fact. Everything else is pure theory.
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Post modern film may mess with time.
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Post modern film frequently uses non linear
storytelling
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Post modernism frequently comments on film making
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Postmodernism means literally after the modern
sometimes abreviated pomo
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Seen Memento?
Definitely Postmodern
The Polaroids The Tattoos (commentary?) The
backwards storytelling
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Memento

• proves that people such as Lenny trust anything
  as long as it has been written down. What the
  film also shows us, is that not only do we
  automatically trust narrators, but we also take
  as gospel anything the film throws at us, without
  questioning its authenticity.

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Hero?
                               He regularly has
himself tattooed with crucial reminders to
himself. Thus Leonard Shelby is a perfectly
visualized postmodern hero.
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Is he a reliable narrator?
                                                
                                                  
                  The Beginning Of The End -
Hidden Feature This is the extra that all
Memento fans have been waiting for - the ability
to watch the film front-to-back, in complete
chronological order. The first question you may
be asking is whether the film works structurally
in this style, and the answer is yes. Some of the
scenes repeat on themselves occasionally, and
there are some split second fade transitions
between some scenes that should run cohesively
into the other, but on the whole, this is like
having two films in one. As a straightforward
narrative, the heroic status of Lenny is
destroyed almost immediately, and the film
becomes premeditatedly painful to watch, since
the twists are revealed right from the start, and
the audience has to sit through the whole film
knowing the awful conclusion. What's ironic is
that the characters of Lenny, Teddy and Natalie
are all reversed in nature in the film, and the
audience has a firmer understanding of who to
trust. Despite the worthiness of this extra, one
cannot help but wonder if the film would have
been such a success had Chris Nolan opted for a
more conventional narrative approach. To access
this hidden feature, let the special features
menu spiral through all of the choices until you
reach a picture of Lenny's chest, and press
SELECT before the menu resets.
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The opening scene

• is sensually excellent, showing a newly taken
  Polaroid photo fading into white as opposed to
  starting to develop, and yet this sequence
  suggests the underlying postmodernist problem for
  Lenny.

The opening scene of the film is sensually
excellent, showing a newly taken Polaroid photo
fading into white as opposed to starting to
develop, and yet this seuence suggests the
underlying postmodernist problem for Lenny. He
has lost his placement in time and space, and
cannot even remember how long ago it was that his
wife was killed. Because Lenny is lost, so is the
audience unsure about the chronological placing
of some of the black and white flashback
sequences.
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He has lost his placement in time and space, and
cannot even remember how long ago it was that
his wife was killed.Because Lenny is lost, so is
the audience unsure about the chronological
placing of some of the black and white flashback
sequences.
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What is the purpose of the black and white
sequences?
They run forward whereas the color sequences are
in reverse order
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Front to Back

• Some of the scenes repeat on themselves
  occasionally, and there are some split second
  fade transitions between some scenes that should
  run cohesively into the other, but on the whole,
  this is like having two films in one. As a
  straightforward narrative, the heroic status of
  Lenny is destroyed almost immediately.

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Chronological order (continued)

• the film becomes premeditatedly painful to watch,
  since the twists are revealed right from the
  start. What's ironic is that the characters of
  Lenny, Teddy and Natalie are all reversed in
  nature in the film, and the audience has a firmer
  understanding of who to trust.

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Chronological order continued

• One cannot help but wonder if the film would have
  been such a success had Chris Nolan opted for a
  more conventional narrative approach.

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Whats the point?
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Robert Altman
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Is Do the Right Thing Post Modern?