A while ago, I asked a question to myself as to whether films can be seen as consistent art forms which can also be self-consistent in portraying certain philosophy. In the sense that, while books are traditionally favorite medium to talk about different Philosophical systems, the current changing waves ask for videos/movies as a way of portraying philosophy. However, it is also important for me to choose and create something that will survive the test of times, and not get deluded as a movies of old generation, to not meant for future generation. It has to be philosophically solid, artistically relevant in future, and consciously relevant to all humans of past, current, and future generation. It seems like a big thing to ask for or a big dream to imagine - however, the solution that is propping in my mind is rather quite simple in visual, atleast.
It seems to be inspired from: my fascination with movies of Richard Linklater, novels/writing of David Foster Wallace, post-structuralism, Godel's incompleteness theorem, my own Philosophy of decision-making, geometrical aspects of evolution (how certain nonphysical mutations aren't carried forward and branching proceeds), cinematic expereince of watching "In the mood for love", my own lifelong love for combing emotional elements with abstract mathematical elements, and my lifelong quest to ascribe various aspects of mental reality onto a canvas.
Solution:
A white background as a metaphor of absolute mental reality - a black circle that represents the frame in which you will watch the story of the movie - black circle is of variable shape - black circle itself resembles the state-of-mind (mindspace) occupied by the central character of the movie - when the character is about to make a decision (as in the black circle is about to pinch towards the right), the whole movie wishes to trace back the past neurons/decisions/mental-spaces invoked internally while the character makes the decision - which means that the black circle moves leftwards and again protrudes in another direction but travels in left direction to another space which represents the decision before it landed up to the current mind space - the cycle keeps on repeating leftwards - the protrusions become more and more bigger and clearer, as some past decisions which were not taken become more and more clearer to see - the tracing back process continues to happen.
A basic structure might be inspired from this:
I know how to visually show the black frame. It will involve some graphic designing, but it shouldn't be a difficult process. What's most important is the story to consider inside the frame?
Task 1: I can try to write down a short-story of my own decision-yet-to-be-taken (in DFW style) by tracing back to the past decision, then to the past decision and so on..where the diversions become bigger and bigger in their description and possiblities of being undertaken.
Task 2: To think of a similar decision-making story, but from a biology perspective. Maybe ideas from lab experience (biophysics and connection to evolution) would help.
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