Orpheus is an extremely gifted instrumentalist and vocalist, taught by Apollo himself, who is subsequently able to charm anyone and anything to do what he wants them to. Somewhere along the way, he falls in love with a Nymph named Eurydice. He and Eurydice live a happy, loving life until a son of Apollo tries to pursue the young nymph. In her attempt to escape, she steps on a poisonous snake, gets bitten and dies. Orpheus, still infatuated with his lover, follows Eurydice to the Underworld where he bargains with his musical charm to take her home. Hades permits this under one condition: he must not look back at her until they once again reach the upper world. Unfortunately, Orpheus is so overcome with lust and passion that he turns around to
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But what is the connection? After watching this clip over and over again, I finally realized: Gaga is trying to distort our reality, trying to make us feel something just like Hitchcock does. Instead of a physical reality that we are accustomed to, Lady Gaga puts us in the frame of mind of this perverted, odd reality that is trying to tell us something. My favorite line in the entire video is, “She wondered: how can I protect something so perfect?” I was instantly reminded of Vertigo and Scottie’s obsession with the idea of the perfect woman bottled up in Madeleine. Just as Lady Gaga is trying to protect the beautiful perfect world (which is thwarted by evil), Scottie tries endlessly to protect the beautiful entity within Madeleine/Judy, eventually failing to protect either of them. Lady Gaga knew exactly what she was doing in beginning her music video this way—it is more powerful than I would ever imagine. I think this video in general is a great example of postmodernism. Postmodernism is the response to modernism, which expressed that reality was a very scientific, objective entity. Instead, postmodernity recognizes that reality is not purely based upon how the human brain understands it, but rather that reality is constructed on the basis of how we all attempt to understand our personal realities. In “Born This Way”, Gaga depicts not how reality should appear scientifically, but instead how her own brain tries to depict reality. While expressionism uses distortion of reality to dive into our emotions, postmodernism uses what we view inside to create what we see on the
But what is the connection? After watching this clip over and over again, I finally realized: Gaga is trying to distort our reality, trying to make us feel something just like Hitchcock does. Instead of a physical reality that we are accustomed to, Lady Gaga puts us in the frame of mind of this perverted, odd reality that is trying to tell us something. My favorite line in the entire video is, “She wondered: how can I protect something so perfect?” I was instantly reminded of Vertigo and Scottie’s obsession with the idea of the perfect woman bottled up in Madeleine. Just as Lady Gaga is trying to protect the beautiful perfect world (which is thwarted by evil), Scottie tries endlessly to protect the beautiful entity within Madeleine/Judy, eventually failing to protect either of them. Lady Gaga knew exactly what she was doing in beginning her music video this way—it is more powerful than I would ever imagine. I think this video in general is a great example of postmodernism. Postmodernism is the response to modernism, which expressed that reality was a very scientific, objective entity. Instead, postmodernity recognizes that reality is not purely based upon how the human brain understands it, but rather that reality is constructed on the basis of how we all attempt to understand our personal realities. In “Born This Way”, Gaga depicts not how reality should appear scientifically, but instead how her own brain tries to depict reality. While expressionism uses distortion of reality to dive into our emotions, postmodernism uses what we view inside to create what we see on the