So Is This

Delight from the text - on the movie screen?! In the main role is the word, but not in its usual role as a carrier of meaning, but as a character itself. Therefore, in the main role, the signifier, but without the signified (at least to the extent possible, as one cannot exist without the other in the final instance). Snow perfectly sealed the words in such a "film" that escaping towards the referents they should normally denote is impossible - in the absolutely abstract "world" of Snow's film, the materiality of the external world is completely abolished, replaced by the emergence of the full materiality of the word. The function of the word as a reference to external reality cannot be achieved in a film that did not turn on its own camera, and especially in a film that comments on nothing more than itself. Snow precisely understood that by telling a story, his words would begin to play a common role and the viewer's imagination would seek a safe haven in any other port than the awareness of the paradoxical nonsense of the word as a sign that can appear to design reality even though it means nothing in and of itself. The greatest humor (of which there is plenty in the film!) lies in the constant sarcasm of using demonstrative pronouns: in a film that disrupts the function of the word as a reference to reality and forces us to enjoy their form, composition, pace of emergence and disappearance, and the play of light and shadow! (08/14/2015)