Places in the heart and in animate places on screens

The problem of the interaction of the place and the cinematic personality with its cultural, human, philosophical and psychological dimensions is embodied in a dense and overlapping integrated whole.

Struggle with place variables

In the beginning was the question of "where" in relation to the human being and his bio space and the space in which he exercises his life, and at the same time the place becomes a mirror for him, his personality, his behavior and his daily interests.

This vital space has another function on the screens, and what we see today is a mixture of action and violence films, as well as science fiction films, historical films, music, horror films and other film genres, all accompanied by the question “where”, in other words, the question of spatial construction and the lack of aesthetics of the place and its close connection with the essence of a process receiving and viewing.

In parallel, the directors’ methods and visions have varied throughout the history of cinema in embodying the place, taking care of it, building it expressively and aesthetically, and enhancing it with connotations and overtones, in return for stripping it of many details and showing it as just a surface on which events occur and nothing more.

And between the open and empty space and the place filled with visual elements, there is a separator through which the characters move to their domestic places, childhood, memories and the past. The vitality is between places that remain in the mind and memory and between places that are fragmented from memory and dissolve with time and no trace remains.

There are places that are the most cruel and affect the characters, where we are here before an example that shows a kind of conflict with the variables of the place from the revolutions of nature such as volcanoes, floods, storms and other disasters, there is no peace with the place in this case, but it is a kind of struggle for survival and nothing more.

We will remember here films such as “After Shock” 1990, “Armageddon” 1989, “Asteroid” 1997, “The Day After Tomorrow” 2004, “The Flood” 2007, “The Hurricane” 1937, “In the Storm” 2014 and “Meteor” 1979 and Storm 1999, Twister 1996, Volcano 1997, The Wave 2015 and others.

Realistically, these examples, through which the natural place is embodied on the screens, are intended through which a more realistic and more influential spatial type is used in the viewer who imagines that what he is watching is the truth, and how a person in the midst of that becomes unable to change the spatial disaster and that he turns into an adventurer In his quest for salvation, and from that to move the description and the spatial presentation to their ends and what they do not end.

On the other hand, there is what is not spatially changeable, or that the spatial in the film is characterized by being an expression of a state of mind, mentality and psychological rigidity, and that is what the place represents from a realistic referral and a mirror image of the personality, including the embodiment of the place with various formations in which the object is dwarfed and the power of the place is shown on it, which is What we see in some science fiction films and in mythology films.

Of course, there are many examples in this section, but the attention is drawn, for example, to those places related to the biography or a past life associated with the personality and the transformation of the place into a witness to various transformations that afflicted the personality at a stage of its stages and in a very important joint of its life, and as we saw in films such as "The Identity Game", "12 Years a Slave", "Spencer and Gandhi", "American Gangster", "Bonnie and Clyde", "Donnie Brasco", "Il Defoe", "The General", "The Missing", "Selma" and many others .

Realistically, the problem of the interaction of place and personality, with its cultural, human, philosophical and psychological dimensions, will be embodied in a dense and overlapping integrated whole, and the directors' methods will vary in deciphering these blockages and broadcasting spatial codes that are more expressive of the personality and what it is.