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Originally Posted by choc e-Claire
A question: how much of the symbolism we analyse in film and that was actually intentional and designed by the director, and how much is just art school overanalytic wankery?
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IT DOESN"T MATTER.
A work of art, once completed, does not rely for meaning on what the artist intended to imbue it with.
A good work of art has many different interpretations. A GREAT work of art has many deep and complex and mutually exclusive interpretations.
Films are created with a specific purpose, but that purpose is meaningless once the work is created and out in the world. Any and all viewers will experience the artwork based solely on what their own experiences/reality tunnel is.
Shakespeare wrote what he thought was just pure entertainment for the masses, but he did it so fucking QUALITY that he managed to imbue the whole of human experience into his art, without meaning to.