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What kind of “the village” would you like to live in?

All of the ideologies, in this world, are trying to reach a high level of human pleasure in a societal level, arent they?

The very last movie I’ve watched was “The Village” from Shyamalan which depicts the tale of an isolated town confronting the astonishing truth that lies just outside its borders. At first glance, this village seems picture perfect, but this close-knit community lives with the frightening knowledge that creatures reside in the surrounding woods. The evil and foreboding force is so unnerving that none dare venture beyond the borders of the village and into the woods. But when curious, headstrong Lucius Hunt plans to step beyond the boundaries of the town and into the unknown, his bold move threatens to forever change the future of the village[i]

The social structuralization of this little village is based on the innocence and happiness of the people, living in a commune, common propertied way, without economy as we know it. As far as I understood from the movie there are basic institutions that would corrupt the human mind and empower the ambition of racing and even killing which are economy, and basically monetary institutions. As long as the social structure provides the happiness and satisfaction to the people of the village, they would not be in need of an exchange such as money. As an unavoidable feature of human kind, death becomes normalized and people dont even try to find medicines, though the attempts are de-motivated by the fear of evil creatures, created by the elders and founders of the village. The unnatural fears are maybe the most dangerous ones that people are the most afraid of, most trying not to break the rules to avoid the danger.  Also I didn’t realised any obvious religious affairs in the movie such as rituels or so…(Perhaps, religion itself, releases the most ancient human ambition to kill to execute the word of “God” yet in the village there is no other world to spread any kind of belief)[ii]

Above anything, this movie left me with dilemmas such as society vs individualism, social pattern vs freedom, happiness of all ?/= happiness of one, happiness vs individual ambitions… the idea for the “elders” to build such a social system was their suffering out of miserable, anguished experiences that they experienced in the order of the modern capitalist/ambitious/relentless world. Trying to create a society where noone is envying others properties yet those properties are pre-provided and shared commonly; a society where love is sacred and free from prejudices, a society where women are included into the daily production and consumption as men equally though still a girl has to ask her father for the permisson for her love. People are dying because of even the simpliest diseases but just to keep the order stil and stable, elders could face with the fact of deaths of their beloveds. Strangely, at the end of the movie, this guy who helped the girl without questioning her, is leading you this question: “ this sort of societies would let anyone else to get in?”

The state of innocence and love and order is seemed to be the most desired human ambition throughout the entire history which led and is leading to warfare and carnage and destruction of the nature itself by the technology. All the ideologies in the world that is governing or governed a state and a public has/had to create some kind of fear towards others to keep themselves as one nation, one ideology, one religion etc… every country/ideology/religion as defined has a natural enemy such as neighbour states, anti ideologies or atheism; so in this movie, a bunch of people created this kind of fear and founded a minimal society yet a peaceful one. The color red became a symbol for crime, blood and human ambition which is banned. The colour yellow would be the symbol for innocence and peace and obedience to those who are wise and elder. Putting a colour on a piece of cloth and giving its meaning makes it a flag and a flag makes people, public,nation whatsoever. Basicly what you see in the movie is nothing different than the creation of societies as we know them through the history of humanity. Yet there are stil a couple of questions left: Can we make a society in a fearless way? Do we need to have enemies in order to understand the goodness and innocence?

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[i] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368447/plotsummary

[ii] "Religion, which should most distinguish us from the beasts, and ought most particularly elevate us, as rational creatures, above brutes, is that wherein men often appear most irrational, and more senseless than beasts." john locke

Avatar'ı izleyince ne mi düşündüm? Anlatayım..

Amerikalı bir arkadaşımla bu film üzerine uzun uzun tartıştık...
Daha öncesinde film hakkında yapılan yorumlardan okuduğum kadarıyla; arkadaşıma aslında bu filmin Amerikan emperyalizmi ve sonunun 20. yy da geldiğini sandığımız kolonizmin birebir göstergesi olduğunu; aslında şimdiye kadar yapılan bütün Hollywood ürünü Vietnam, 2. dünya savaşı, Japonya,Irak vs savaşları konulu filmlerin bu emperyalizmin ürünü olduğunu, bunu bir şekilde meşrulaştırdığını; kahraman amerikan askerinin çilesini gözler önüne sererek ajitasyona dayanan amerikan milliyetçilik (aslında daha kendi içindeki "çokkültürcü demokrasi" "sorununu" çözememiş amerikan milliyetçiliği) politikası sürdürdüğünü iddia etmiştim. Taki son derecede müthiş bir teknoloji ürünü olan ve belki de sinemada yapay çekimlerin modern prototipi olacak olan bu filmi izleyinceye kadar...
Yapılan yorumlardan ve izlenimlerimden yola çıkarak; "kaybeden gök insanları"nın ( atom bombası da havadan atılmamış mıydı oysa ki...), son derecede otantik, egzotik, sıradışı, bilinmeyen ve (bilinmemesinden dolayı) bir o kadar korkutucu olan bir gezegendeki madenin peşine düşmesini, yerel halkın da medeniyet- eğitim- ahlak- "insaniyet" dışı olmalarından ileri gelen "terörizm"inin; emperyal- kapitalist- kolonist güçlere karşı kazandığı zafer anlatılmakta bu filmde...ironik olan ise zaferin yine bir amerikan 'kahraman' askeri tarafından kazanılması...son birkaç onyıldaki Amerikan "demokrasi" savaşlarına baktığımızda da aslında aynı manzarayı görmüyor muyuz? Afganistan ve Irak'taki savaşın aslında amerikan "milleti" değil de birkaç büyük şirketin (American Petroleum Company başta olmak üzere..) tekelinde yer alması ne garip!
Demokrasinin ücretini petrol ve maden olarak alan Amerikan hükümetleri (ki bu hükümetlerin petrol şirketleri ile 1. 2. 3. dereceden akrabai ilişkileri bulunmakta..bkz Bush Family) "teröre terör ile karşılık vermekte" ve zamanın birkaç en büyük yapay insanlik dramını yaratmakta..
Pekala yukarıda anlatılanların hepsi benim bu çok yakın Amerikalı arkadaşıma iddia ettiğim fikirlerdi. Peki onun buna cevabı ne oldu?... İşte orası biraz ironik...kendi yorumu; hollywood film endüstrisinin apolitizm politikasından başka bir amacı olmaması ve çekilen bütün filmlerin tek amacının "entertainment" (eğlenti) olduğu , zaten filmi izleyen hiçbir Amerikan vatandaşının da filme bu gözle bakamayacağı, ilgilenilen tek unsurun savaş sahneleri ve ileri teknoloji kullanımının olduğu; filmi yazan yöneten her kimsenin böyle bir amacının olmaması ve hatta bunun farkında bile olmadıkları yönünde idi.İşte bu nedenle arkadaşım, filme karşı yapılan bu yorumların aslında biraz acımasız olduğu, Hollywood'u pek fazla ciddiye almamak gerektiğini savunmakta...
"Kitlesel apolitikleşrimenin" yeni bir politik altyapısını hazırlayan Amerikan idealizmi, insanlar ile politik aktivizm arasına medya perdesini germekte ve aslında insanlar bu perdenin arka tarafından yanan ışığın yarattığı gölgelere karşı Amerikan aktvizmi sürdürmekte...peki diğer taraftan; bu insanlar kendi hükümetlerinin ve insanlarının (askerlerinin) yarattığı acıdan zevk (eğlenti) mi almakta?
Velhasıl-ı kelam Irak'ı ve Afganistan'ı Amerika'dan kurtaracak olan kahraman Amerikan askerlerinin yolunu gözlemekteyim....hayrola..

BIRDGIRLS CAN FLY

You daydream sometimes right? And most of the time for a normal person daydreaming is spontaneous and uncontrollable; so for me, its not! I kinda learned how to seperate myself from the reality; even for a while. Reality bent...to expose the surreal... Okay! so my universe is something that is created out of the books ive read through my entire life, each book i read and will read has something to add to this universe. Those times that i start daydreaming, i show up in this universe. Its not a story actually its a collective work of the books. Thats the point! i made it real... i mean its another reality... The mind is a very real thing...so why shouldn't its creations be real too? Its not a dream world or something that i jump on the hills over the clouds... its something real that i have issues, dramas and stuff as well... so the idea of such an alternative world that i've created keeps me sane; saves me from the reality as we know it. I AM CONFUSED!! Confusion is the source, if you know what i mean... No! how can the things you dont even know confuse you? What confuses you is the things you "know". Have you ever heard about this book of Paulo Coelho, "the witch of portobello"? Ok, so im not gonna tell you the story but the point of the book is that the creation of the world and environment is a work of confusion... theoretically if you dance out of rythm with very straight rythm, you'll find the god... Sorry for bugging you with my nonsense dreams... well i wish people around me would admire it too cuz they think im a selfish person leaving so much time to myself... they think i dont care about them because i spend alot of time in my room alone writing and thinking and daydreaming and stuff. I dont blame them; i mean everyone has a truth and reason in thier own ways so according to them im a nerd and whatsoever... Ima tell you another story next time we talk if we ever talk again..;)

• Equinox Project ⇒ The virtue of Feeling and Touching ⇒ Wisdom or Helplessness? 21st March and 23rd September are periods of time that night and day are equal to each other, another words equinox. Night and day, equality of darkness and daylight meant that visible and invisible world could equal to each other for us.

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