Cinema of the brain in Kubrick.

It is not possible to state a visible distinction between brain cinema and body cinema. Deleuze says that there is equal amount of feeling in the body and in the brain. Body gives orders to the brain but brain have also big effect on the body. Although, it is hard to make a distinction between them, Deleuze puts Kubrick in brain cinema. We still see the indistinctive features of the brain and body cinema in Kubrick. For example in Kubrick’s Clockwork Orange, attitudes of the body are violent, but it comes from the brain. The ultra-violence of the character Alex, is a reflection of the brain, his psychology.

Also Deleuze says that, in Kubrick, world is the brain. There is identity of brain and the world like the giant computer in 2001 Space Odyssey. He also mentions about the black stone in the 2001 Space Odyssey that it presides over cosmic and cerebral states in the film as the film itself does. After considering these sentences I think what Jay Weidner says makes sense. According to Jay Weidner, black stone is the film. Film itself does the same effect to the world, to people as the black stone does to the film. The black stone so the film itself also presents an initiation. Like Deleuze said, “Kubrick is renewing the theme of the initiatory journey because every Journey in the world is an exploration of the brain.

Deleuze adds that, world-brain is the Clockwork Orange. Identity of the brain and the world, the automaton, is a membrane between inside and the outside, sometimes combines them and sometimes confronts them. Like Alex in the Clockwork Orange. First his attitudes were ultra-violence, then he took the Ludovico treatment, he was “cured”. First violence attitudes of him were because of his psychology, the inside. When he took the Ludovico Treatment he lost his freewill, he has the goodness but without free will, he become automaton. His goodness was actually society’s goodness. After the treatment became a part of the society, outside. In the film, state of Alex in which he was an automaton, was the membrane which confronts the inside and the outside.

Kubrick also says that, violent Alex was the unconscious, man in his natural state. After he took the treatment, he has been “cured”, he has been “civilized”. Then sickness came, which may be viewed as the neurosis imposed by the society.

http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.aco.html

http://www.crystalinks.com/blackstonealchemy.html

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