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Special thank you to Greg Dember, co-author of whatismetamodern.com/ for chatting with me for this video. Watch more on their YouTube Channel: @WhatIsMetamodern
In this video I dive into what Metamodernism is and what it looks like in film, and chart how the movies have evolved since their modernist origins.
Additional Montage Editing by John Rising: www.tiktok.com/@highenquiries
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[CC] To see which films I'm referencing, turn on "English (United States) - Movie Titles" under captions. For regular subtitles select "English"
[1] Misunderstandings and clarifications | Notes on Metamodernism by Timotheus Vermeulen & Robin van den Akker: www.metamodernism.com/2015/06/03/misunderstandingsâŚ
[2] - The Metamodernist Manifesto www.metamodernism.org/
[3] Metamodernism: Oscillation Revisited medium.com/what-is-metamodern/metamodernism-oscillâŚ
[4] How 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is a love letter to moms...and the internet mashable.com/article/everything-everywhere-all-at-âŚ
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// Chapters:
00:00 "They Don't Make Them Like That Anymore"
01:00 What Do They Make Them Like Now?
04:46 The Metamodern Era
05:56 Modernism
12:40 Postmodernism
19:22 Metamodernism
27:44 Why Metamodernism?
// Films Referenced:
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Aftersun (2022)
Apocalypse Now (1979)
Avengers Endgame (2019)
As I was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (2000)
Badlands (1973)
Barton Fink (1991)
Blade Runner The Final Cut (1982)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Babylon (2022)
Bo Burnham Inside (2021)
Bones and All (2022)
Chronicle of a Summer (1961)
Eight and a Half (1963)
Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)
F For Fake (1973)
Fargo (1996)
Glass Onion (2022)
High Noon (1952)
Joker (2019)
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Meeting the Man James Baldwin in Paris (1970)
Mirror (1975)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1974)
No Country For Old Men (2007)
Nope (2022)
Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)
Pearl (2021)
Pig (2021)
Persona (1966)
Psycho (1960)
Pulp Fiction (1994)
Rushmore (1998)
San Soleil (1983)
Symbiopsychotaxiplasm - Take One (1968)
Synecdoche New York (2008)
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
The Fabelmans (2022)
The French Dispatch (2021)
The Long Goodbye (1973)
The Martian (2015)
The Matrix 4 Resurrections (2022)
The Menu (2022)
The Souvenir (2019)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Top Gun Maverick (2022)
Taxi Driver (1976)
White Noise (2022)
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Here's a thought. I wonder if the reason why metamodernist artists are so obsessed with the postmodern obsession with narrative is that the average artist's art is increasingly informed by their experience of art rather than the 'real world.' By this, I mean that many artists during the modernist period were artists in conjunction with or following experiences as soldiers, lawyers, grocers, construction workers, teachers, mothers/fathers, etc. Whereas the average moviemaker now has probably been interested in and pursuing such a career since they were in high school, meaning that they don't get to experience the real world before they begin to actively pursue art. They grew up consuming media and thus their perception of reality has been dominated by that filter, and less balanced by other experiences of 'real life'. I realize this is an overgeneralization, as is the notion of 'real life', but I wonder whether the angst that pervades artists in part stems from the fact that they're not sure what value their art has, which stems from the fact that they've never done anything else that they can compare it to.
Just a thought...
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this breakdown of recent movies feels so accurate. everything has a sort of self-aware, self-deprecating undertone, and it feels almost more insincere and self-indulgent than the movies that take themselves seriously. as a young person, i feel a constant desire to prove that i donât take myself too seriously (because then i am always in in the joke even if it is about myself.) it is a way to subvert criticism: if you point out what is wrong with yourself first, then no one can use it against you. it is the same thing with post modernism and meta-modernism. when directors and writers noticed the public pointing out inconsistencies and cheesiness in movies, they felt the need to make everyone laugh with them at the expense of their personal dignity.
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I will never cease to be amazed by people who are smart enough to fully flesh out ideas that I myself can only "feel." I'm 48 year old. When it came to movies I knew something had changed, something was different, but it was just a feeling. I wasn't smart enough to really pull it together. It was nice to be able to roadmap it.
Small aside: The entire video I was thinking "there is something familiar about this guy". Then it came to me; he's wearing what I knew 25 years ago as Marine Corp Woolly Pully.
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"A cynicism that tears everything down and leaves you unable to sincerely engage with anything" feels very, very real today.
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My biggest gripe with modern film and media has always been the growing lack of sincerity. So many writers end up afraid that their audience won't buy in to genuine emotion and sentiment, so they cop out and end any genuine moment with bathos or irony, resulting in a story where it's hard to really attach to anyone. What's worse is that sincerity isn't even a problem for most viewersârather, it's the way sincerity is expressed, and for what subjects. It's not that we don't want stories that encourage bravery or friendship or kindness; we just want them expressed in a way that matches our current beliefs.
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I just watched the Barbie movie and thought immediately about this video essay that I watched months ago. The Barbie movie is a perfect example of metamodernism.
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You can see this trend outside the arts in people's every day behaviour too. Often when speaking to older people there's a genuity and sincerity that comes across, while speaking to millennials or gen z it's easy to pick up on their self-awareness, irony or at worst anxiety and embarrassment.
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How soundtracks have changed is one thing that drives me nuts. Modern movies are afraid of silence, so they CONSTANTLY have to have some song playing. But, sometimes you NEED silence to convey certain emotions.
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This is what C.S. Lewis had to say about deconstructionism, which is closely tied to post-modernism.
âYou cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it. It is good that the window should be transparent, because the street or garden beyond it is opaque. How if you saw through the garden too? It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.â
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11:42 This is kinda how I felt watching Gran Turismo. I went into the film almost expecting to come out thinking it was bad because I knew the plot was straightforward based on the trailer but they actually did the predictable structure so well and I thought it was amazing. It surprised me that that simplicity can still work nowadays. Helps that the acting was great too.
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The ability to treat this like a short film is great. Being able to incorporate the concepts youâre discussing not just as examples (clips from film) but even more so using them yourself as editing and writing techniques is so great!
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this is definitely a video essay
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I have always considered good movies as ones that take me on a journey. Not necessarily a physical journey as having the characters jumping around from place to place, or even necessarily a mental or spiritual journey, but that feeling that time dilates during the course of the movie. You only spent an hour and a half watching it, but you feel like it took you around the world and back in that short time. That, as opposed to movies that have you sitting there wondering "is this thing EVER going to end?"
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This is why I love Wes Anderson. His movies take you to fantastical world. But while you are lost in the humor, bright colors, sets, and shots he is actually setting up a complex narrative about life.
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"I think a big part of why we see this kind of self-reflectivity (in meta-postmodernism) is that viewers and artists feel self-conscious about art that is just passive entertainment".
I think this is the crux of it and not just about the relation between meta and post, but in essence an explanation of how each new "wave of change" to any expressive medium is based on its desire to analyze, deduct and ultimately escape the previous generation that precedes it. Also, it describes the genius of David Lynch.
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1. Don't talk down to the audience
2. Feelings over ideas
3. "How" is as important as "what" and "why"
4. Be sincere to yourself and to the audience
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Easily the best essay youâve ever written. This is exactly what Iâve been looking for.
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I was really struggling to articulate (even to myself) why I don't like movies anymore and I'm glad I stumbled upon this video.
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A few thoughts:
1) This is really well done.
2) I understand what metamodernism is trying to do, but I think it's as flawed and incomplete as its parents. The sincerity almost always strikes me as empty and hollow, the same way that I used to meet postmodern thinkers who would argue that life is meaningless and you have to find your own meaning, and then would viciously attack you whenever you actually did find or construct meaning. I feel like the message is, "Yeah, go ahead and find meaning, just don't you dare actually believe in it in a real-world sense." Getting past this would require a sort of solipsistic nature to meaning in a way that's not cheap. I'm not sure if this is a fundamental flaw in the idea, or if it's just very hard to fully grasp, let alone communicate.
3) You're correct in that subversion got old a long time ago, but honestly I'm even more tired of constant media referencing, especially franchise self-referencing. The only thing I find to be more obnoxious in the world of film is remakes.
4) Keep the beard.
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@Charsept
11 months ago
I used to say I miss the "campiness" of 90s movies. But now I'm starting to think what I'm missing is sincerity. As someone who has enough issues to worry about in my real life, I seek out movies as a form of escapism. And a simple story let's me forget about the chaos for a couple hours.
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