For My Crushed Right Eye

Impressions of the world, or rather the awakening world of youth, protest, liberated sexuality, rock music, and drugs of the late 60s. Matsumoto mocks the established idea of visual perception of the world with the film’s name and subsequent contradictory processing - two healthy eyes can see an object from two different perspectives, but in the end, the brain merges them into a single image. On the other hand, when one eye is broken and non-functional, we only see the object from one perspective, followed by a change of place and a new single perspective. So, what does Matsumoto have to say about it? We see the film as if it were divided by the view of two eyes, but in fact, it is two one-eyed perspectives placed side by side. While in a healthy view, the synthesis of two points of view is automatically carried out in the brain, the synthesis of a number of separate points of view must be carried out by the viewer through his or her activity, whether rationally or emotionally conceived. It depends on the viewer and what kind of synthesis/single image he/she creates on the retina in the end. (06/08/2015)