Placebo symbolism where u just put in some really blatant symbols but they're just there to look cool and don't actually convey any important meaning relevant to the themes of the story
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close cousin to Schroedinger's symbolism, where it is both both totally deliberate and means something and total coincidence that doesn't mean something, depending on whether the viewer thinks that meaning is cool and smart
Exactly! Who needs deep thematic relevance when you can just slap a chessboard, a single crow, and a cracked mirror into a scene and let the audience spiral? It’s not symbolism, it’s vibe-alism.
Hm, placebo, maybe.
There's definitely room for something there between the intentional and the arbitrary. And meaning may emerge. It's a bit mystical, for lack of a better word.
carefully arranging a shot as a reference to the last supper but deliberately placing all the characters in a way that's completely misleading with regard to where the story is going
One one hand, this is good because there a decent chance people will make up meaning that weren`t supposed to be there....on the other, this is bad because there a decent chance people will make up meaning that weren`t supposed to be there....
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In other words, cool artists make cool stuff, as far as we can perceive. And that's axiomatically what matters.
It may also be or not be smart to be smart about it - annoyingly.
I think.
There's definitely room for something there between the intentional and the arbitrary. And meaning may emerge. It's a bit mystical, for lack of a better word.
The cross / crucifix... Is still a Roman execution pole