ANGER:

 
                           (Image from Delhi Belly [2011], Indian Black Comedy, film directed by Abhinay Deo)


The first emotion I wish to start collecting information about is ANGER.
How does Anger comes across in films? How does anger/frustration affect, for instance aesthetic, style and mise-en scene of a film? 

                                       (Frames from Rang de Basanti, dir. by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra, 2006)

A year later...Starting again...from the beginning:

My starting point this time is to clarify why this blog.

This blog is mostly an homage to the primary reactions we experience when we sit in a cinema theater being astonished, disgusted, intrigued, horrified etc. with the images projected on the silver screen. It is an homage to our tears and laughter and to all the outer and inner emotions that often are mixed together with the one of others sharing the magnificence of a cinematic screen, to form an emotional orchestra of reactions.

This blog hopes to develop and host in time insights on how are emotions associated to cinematic viewing. I hope to collect (with the help of a generous academic, and non academic community), scholarly articles, footage, reports, pictures on cinematic/filmic reactions.

The question here, is how can we begin talking about emotions in cinema and films? And how do they mean in our cinematic experience?

My Starting Point:

""David: Hello I am David...I can make your organisation more efficient...I can carry out directives that my human counterparts might find distressing, or unethical...

V.O.: David what do you think about?

David: I think about anything...Children playing, Angels, Universe, Robots...

V.O.: David, What makes you SAD?

David: What?...Poverty, Cruelty, Unnecessary Violence. I understand human emotions (with tears running across his stony-face) although I do not feel them myself. This allows me to be more efficient and capable....and makes it easier for my human counterparts to interact with me.
......
Eighth generation of Weyland TIPE...Technological, Intellectual, Physical...EMOTIONAL.""

Recently I have heard an abomination, a person said..."cinema is dead". This person believes that this era is solely the digital era, the emotionless digital era...he said! The digital era is dominated (he said) by 3D viewings...without actually considering that digitalization, unfortunately does not provide a long life to films, and 3D is not a novel technique. Since the inception of cinema, and even before cinema, third dimension, was among the prerogatives of experimenting and enhancing any visual medium. "Cinema is dead" is a statement that functioned like a dagger to the entire emotional and sensorial apparatus embodied within my film viewings from a very young age.
I have come across this film, on robots, robotisation of humans, human characteristics and emotions (never forgetting The Bicentennial Man). I was wondering if this film (and the digital tears of the 'emotionless' character), will '(e)ffect' the views of strenuous believers that cinema is dead...and that affirming that 'cinema is dead' appears to be, perhaps, a "poor, cruel and unnecessary violence" against imagination.      

I would like to welcome everyone, to this new Blog on world cinema...Emotional World Cinema, is a blog about cinemas across the world...and the emotions engulfed in these films. Personal emotions, cinematic emotions, emotions of the audience, emotions linked to places of film screening, or filmmaking...and memory...