If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money; and instead of training the audience by giving them inspiring works of art, you are merely training the artist to ensure his own income. For their part, the audience will continue, their contentment unalloyed, to feel they are right— seldom a well-founded conviction. The failure to develop the audience’s capacity to criticise our own judgements is tantamount to treating them with total indifference.
I agree. I would also say that Haneke’s most dominant technique is his use of off-screen space. He highlights a profound problem with social structures by trapping the audience into imagining what he fears they will.
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— Tarkovsky
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I agree. I would also say that Haneke’s most dominant technique is his use of off-screen space. He highlights a profound problem with social structures by trapping the audience into imagining what he fears they will.
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