Well, I believe that there is a reality, and it operates according to certain laws. Even social reality. So there is truth. I don't distinguish between truth and Truth, though. Yeah, content-wise, most movies are kinda lame, imo. Relationships and humor and all these trivial, fleeting things. This may be the real disagreement, haha.
I don't really disagree that content changes with style, and style has content, but there is some distinction between the 'form', so to speak, and what it 'means'. The style itself means things, of course, but that doesn't change the fact that it works with form. Incidentally, though, iconic signs are the hardest to split up this way, because the form actually resembles the 'meaning', so to speak. So I don't mean that the style itself has no 'content', only that when it's not used to convey anything insightful, i forget it. When it's formulaic, generic, conventional...these sorts of things.
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Date: 2009-01-11 05:33 pm (UTC)I don't really disagree that content changes with style, and style has content, but there is some distinction between the 'form', so to speak, and what it 'means'. The style itself means things, of course, but that doesn't change the fact that it works with form. Incidentally, though, iconic signs are the hardest to split up this way, because the form actually resembles the 'meaning', so to speak. So I don't mean that the style itself has no 'content', only that when it's not used to convey anything insightful, i forget it. When it's formulaic, generic, conventional...these sorts of things.