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Working to better yourself as you go through life is a powerful goal and is what I reach for as I continue my meagre research into the cinema and its role in society. Christian Metz describes cinema as looking into a mirror without seeing your own reflection. Rather we see something more, and it is this "more" that interests me. The eye of the camera, like the eye of humanity sees not objectively but is subject to a systematic violence of philosophy, ideology, and a provisional knowledge that is constantly being re-evaluated.Thus I move toward the furhter ninterest I have developed, that of the role of the morph in cinema... Tales of transgendering, metamorphosis and transformations into other forms, such as beasts, spirits and so forth is an integral part of all mythological systems. It is therefore not surprising to find transformation genres creeping more and more into cinema. Transgressions and assimilations take film and spectators beyond the limits of the conventios of filmmaking…Metamorphosis between two or more images over time is a, significant, spectacular and useful visual technique that has intrigued filmmakers and audiences since Méliès.

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There is turning point, a point of absolute paradox, when the life force is also a death-force. This point of absolute paradox, where one world meets another, where death meets life; this is the exact moment of death, when as Derrida asserts a person is all that they will ever be, in the real, or this reality. This is the thin line between insanity and genius, reality, and illusion, the virtual and the real, the virtual and illusion, dream and wake, and male and female. Like the transformations of the Wolfman, the dramatic metamorphosis from Dr. Jekyll to Mr. Hyde, the transformation, in Vertigo, of Judy into Madeline, the fluid transformations of the terminator in Judgement Day, or the morphing of the agents in The Matrix visualises the turning point of paradox. To be “at the turning point” of the morph is to be all and nothing. As the agents enter the body image of a human, they transform or morph the human residual image into the programmed image of the entering agent. There is a moment, a millisecond when they are both organic and technology, and they are neither. This point of paradox, regularly referred to throughout cinematic history...

Reality, as we understand it, is constructed, yet the shape of our own reality remains an illusion, one of the biggest illusions is the belief we can shape our own destiny.  Realities contain particular deep structural principles or organizations, as individuals both operate and interpret such principles differently. Each individual therefore shapes their own reality differently in relation to the sum of life experiences.

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