With a lot of discussion surrounding Inland Empire recently in this forum, both people who do and do not like it, I was wondering what criteria people look for in a film in the area of Formalism vs. Realism vs. Surrealism. Because it seems to be that Lynch would fall under the category of Surrealism, with some Formalism in the interpretation, and I was wondering if the people who tended not to like it was well prefer films to be predominantly under the category of realism.
Personally I would have to say that formalism is where I find films most interesting. I appreciate it when a film has a solid narrative line, but I enjoy the interpretation of the elements in the film after the fact, therefore a formalist film where elements don't always mean a purely one to one ratio, for exmple in the TV show Dead Like Me, there is a frog, and in a one to one ratio an image of a frog would signify a frog, however, in Dead Like Me it also signifies death
Personally I would have to say that formalism is where I find films most interesting. I appreciate it when a film has a solid narrative line, but I enjoy the interpretation of the elements in the film after the fact, therefore a formalist film where elements don't always mean a purely one to one ratio, for exmple in the TV show Dead Like Me, there is a frog, and in a one to one ratio an image of a frog would signify a frog, however, in Dead Like Me it also signifies death
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"As I was walking up the stair,
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today,
I wish, I wish he'd go away."
-From Identity