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It’s quite ironic to rate on letterboxd a movie like this but anyway..**
This was definitely a hard watch as the movie leans into heavy hard topic matters. The film is very prophetic but the most prophetic part is the ending: the Spectacle doesn't destroy resistance but turns into a product revolution becomes an aesthetic which then becomes a product, the movie is from 1973 but it’s what happens exactly now(or like how many che Guevara shirts are there lol). ,
Debord weaponizes détournement: he hijacks the system’s own imagery against it: Hollywood classics, softcore porn, newsreels, and advertisements. I was confused at first with all the naked women in the movie but I assume that he meant that Spectacle uses erotic desire to sell commodities, transforming human beings into glossy objects to be passively admired. It shows us that we don’t buy products but we buy the image of happiness they promise us.

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It’s quite ironic to rate on letterboxd a movie like this but anyway..**
This was definitely a hard watch as the movie leans into heavy hard topic matters. The film is very prophetic but the most prophetic part is the ending: the Spectacle doesn't destroy resistance but turns into a product revolution becomes an aesthetic which then becomes a product, the movie is from 1973 but it’s what happens exactly now(or like how many che Guevara shirts are there lol). ,
Debord weaponizes détournement: he hijacks the system’s own imagery against it: Hollywood classics, softcore porn, newsreels, and advertisements. I was confused at first with all the naked women in the movie but I assume that he meant that Spectacle uses erotic desire to sell commodities, transforming human beings into glossy objects to be passively admired. It shows us that we don’t buy products but we buy the image of happiness they promise us.

(spectac)ular — probably should read the book x

(spectac)ular — probably should read the book x

So…..this thing

In terms of intention, this feels kind of five star worthy. The the attempt to use cinema as a philosophical template and even potentially a galvanizing force is incredibly commendable and something I think should be encouraged in general, especially considering that there is relatively very few films that I think genuinely fall under that category.

Its theories are passably dense but the overarching problem with The society of spectacle is that it’s more or less a worse version of just reading a text. Debrord seems to not consider it fully necessary to even fully develop his thoughts using the cinematic tools of the medium instead opting for just taking his original text and using cinema as a sort of backdrop set dressing while his text is read aloud. 

This society of spectacle has truly commendable intentions, however Debrod seems altogether too uninterested in not only what it means to present these ideas through cinema but also the gravitas of that choice. 

All in all Debrods intentions to further his ideas through cinema are commendable and you may assess the quality of Debrods analysis for yourself but as a film, it’s all right at best and detrimental to his mission worst.

So…..this thing

In terms of intention, this feels kind of five star worthy. The the attempt to use cinema as a philosophical template and even potentially a galvanizing force is incredibly commendable and something I think should be encouraged in general, especially considering that there is relatively very few films that I think genuinely fall under that category.

Its theories are passably dense but the overarching problem with The society of spectacle is that it’s more or less a worse version of just reading a text. Debrord seems to not consider it fully necessary to even fully develop his thoughts using the cinematic tools of the medium instead opting for just taking his original text and using cinema as a sort of backdrop set dressing while his text is read aloud. 

This society of spectacle has truly commendable intentions, however Debrod seems altogether too uninterested in not only what it means to present these ideas through cinema but also the gravitas of that choice. 

All in all Debrods intentions to further his ideas through cinema are commendable and you may assess the quality of Debrods analysis for yourself but as a film, it’s all right at best and detrimental to his mission worst.

if i could quote any part of this i would quote everything. simply brilliant. the book is way better though, because hearing it made me bored of it, and i couldn't entirely grasp whatever was being said sometimes i had to pause it. tedious work. but because of its content obviously this is a solid 5. i am always mind blown by whatever guy debord has to say. and the way he says it. going to be rereading the book again to have yet another existential crisis. i love the references of this in modern culture. i understood everything but also nothing. everything is just kind of ironic. i cannot put into words whatever is going in my head right now, but i will find the words one day maybe.

if i could quote any part of this i would quote everything. simply brilliant. the book is way better though, because hearing it made me bored of it, and i couldn't entirely grasp whatever was being said sometimes i had to pause it. tedious work. but because of its content obviously this is a solid 5. i am always mind blown by whatever guy debord has to say. and the way he says it. going to be rereading the book again to have yet another existential crisis. i love the references of this in modern culture. i understood everything but also nothing. everything is just kind of ironic. i cannot put into words whatever is going in my head right now, but i will find the words one day maybe.

I like the shots but like, come on man... If you are going to talk about communism and the proletarian people, at least don't talk in one note during the entire film, boring.

I like the shots but like, come on man... If you are going to talk about communism and the proletarian people, at least don't talk in one note during the entire film, boring.