Hyperreality and Humans

Hyperreality.

• Video games 
• Christmas is presented to be fun filled with nice food and gifts.
• Sex-
• The first time and loss of virginity narrative, the reality never lives up to the fantasy, low key lighting, rose petals, candles. Hard core porn.
• Death
• Boris Johnson
• Long Road
• War represented to be fun and exciting it is glorified to entertain the audience. Propaganda!

Postmodernism- A postmodern media product is one that deliberately breaks rules.

• Deliberately trashy in fashion. 
• Deliberately has a complicated narrative.

Funny games 1997- Der Hund

• Breaks the 4th wall.
• Makes the audience feel like they are being involved.

The breakfast scene:

• Anita is a hyper real construction of women.
• Anita lives up to stereotypical norms of women.
• Anita is the ideal woman as she makes breakfast and cleans and does what shes told.
• Joe may even prefer Anita ti Laura.
• Anita's makeup is natural but bold.
• Her eyes are emphasised and her cheekbones are very defined making her look like a doll.
• Cognitive dissonance is the inability to hold 2 thoughts in one's head at the same time.
• Anita is alive and beautiful yet dead and still at the same time.
• Hyperreal breakfast as the family is all together.
• "The jams in a thing"- Sophie is excited as this isn't normal for them.

  

• The girls are like live adverts- postmodernism.
• Catalog of women.
• The women have like a sell line.
• Like mannequins in a shop window.

Examples for Humans:

• Humans bricolage "borrowing" from other texts.
• Relies on audience understanding of sci-fi to decode it.
• The narrative is fragmented with flashbacks.