There Is no Spoon

As it has been shown, the cinematography in The Matrix deconstructs its workings before a spectator. During the reasearch I wanted to answer one question: how, on the one hand, do the cinematographical codes bring forth messages which make an illusion of reality and how, on the other hand, do they undermine the realistic quality of each other. As it has been proven cinematography can be described as a set of visual codes and subcodes used to produce illusion of reality. Film semioticians attack realism in cinema as just another "mode of signification" which is not priviledged among others. (Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory 62) Unfortunately, the realistic cinema is the main stream and avant-garde filmakers which seek another ways of producing meaning are the minority. The preference of the contemporary audience is to be deluded that the things they see are real and the realism in cinema allows that. Film semioticians are trying to deconstruct that illusion. Consequently, they are in opposition to the pervading version of reality presented by the images given by culture which insists that these pictures are reality. (Andrew, Concepts in Film Theory 63) We may not conform to that ideology and create our own versions of reality. The secret is to realize that "it is not the spoon that bends, it is only yourself". ( The Matrix)…