for Twelve Monkeys
Directed by Terry Gilliam, known for his off-beat, slightly absurdist, irony-drenched, somewhat experimental films.
Notice, as you watch :
The multiple cameras/screens used by “the scientists.” Instances of mass media: painting, music, radio, graffiti, film, TV, etc. References, direct or indirect, to the culture industry. The ways in which “intertextuality” operates in the story. The ways in which the film “defamiliarizes” aspects of visual and consumer culture. |