On Delueze’s Cinema

Cinema is like a science lab. Within the time the directors change their methods to make connection between audience and the film. As it can be understood from the text of Delueze directors produce according to their beliefs and each film tries another method on audience. In Deleuze’s Time and Image he indicates that there is a thinkir inside of us and by sublime this thinker wakes up. According to my idea this could mean that while we are experiencing motor sensory in cinema we are not that aware of what is going on. Inside of us another “I” starts thinking by the shocks. The whole process is like a machine working, means in a systematic. After the film we realzie that we got something from the film, there are notions that the film awakens within us.

In most of the points it is clear that eleuze refers to Hegel’s ideas. The whole occurs in the process of image to thought and thought to image. According to Hegel, too, truth can be grasp from the interconnection of two things. The truth is neither in the mediator nor in the mediated, its in the mediation, means comes from the relation between mediator and mediated. Whole is, too, neither in the image nor in the thought, but in the connection of the two.

On the other hand, as I understood metonymy and metaphor are the activators of the thought. Thinker gets the shocks from those two in order to give them a meaninig and make the image clearer thinker has to start thinking about the images and their indicators. With metonymy and metaphors thinker goes beyond the action-image and gets the thought. In this aspect in order to have a whole (image-thought-image) cinema has to contain metonymy or metaphors.

In the third stage in which the image and thought have co-existence, Deleuze writes “ the concepts is in itself in the image, and the image is for itself in the concept” (p.161). The important points in here are being in itself and for itself. Although image and concept coexist, one has a hierarchical superiority. Concept is in itself within the image, however the image is for itself within the concept. Image’s existence looks like dependent to the concepts exisetence. In my opinion the whole can be found here as the in itself and for itself come together and make a unity. Cinema by using images gives us the phenomenon of its concept. In this manner, I think concept as being in itself has a hierarchical superiority over image.

Deleuze, Time-Image, 2009, Contunuum