Study On The Black Humor Film

In the context of the consumerism culture, the programmed assembly line hasbecome a programmed production mode of commercial films. The rationalconnotation in the film with the "discourse" characterized mainly is evolving, and theintrinsic cultural value tends to depart from a unique mission of a film as the essenceof art in the commercial films. It embodies that the cultural depth tend to dispel，humanistic concern lacks and excessive entertainment commonly exists in thecommercial films. The emergence of Black Humor Films with its unique culturalthinking and positioning has taken on a new film form. Black humor films accentuatesconcern about human, whose topics such as identity anxiety, confusion of value, thesurvival state, collective unconsciousness and absurdity of characters in the societyconstitute the connotation system in Black Humor Films. The abundant andmulti-level “black” aesthetics implications show time criticisms and social problems,and also care about the spirit of modern people.Taking black humor as the most important artistic perspective, Black HumorFilms has incorporated the happy logic of cultural consumption and the pursuit ofquality into consideration together. The filmmakers can express their aesthetictendency in the form of the black humor and get more film creation performancespace in the same time; the audience can complete the personal philosophy critique oflife in the process of watching movies. The aesthetic features of Black Humor Filmsmainly appear as two points: the paradox of comedic contradictions and the gameplayof narrative strategies. The paradox of comedic contradictions has formed the deepstructure that consumption reciprocity both contradictory sides exist mutual on eachother, against each other and benefit from each other. In the form of paradox, BlackHumor Films are more close to life essence. The audience can obtain the culturalrights of aesthetic comprehension. What’s more, by the psychological process ofcontrast, the audience’s mental retardation of a superficial aesthetic comprehensioncan upgrade to the inner aesthetic pleasure. The gameplay of narrative strategiesrepresents mainly in three aspects: Meta discourse deconstruction, tridimensionalnarrative blending more clues and types. So the choice of the gameplay is based onthe audience’s social psychology and aesthetic taste. Watching film can become amore liberal aesthetic activity, meanwhile the gameplay is able to inspire the audienceto actively construct the deep meaning of the film text. From the perspective of cultural rights, filmmakers of Black Humor Films fullyget hold of the initiative in the creation of the film. They can mix their personal style,the social reality and the artistic theme of everlasting vitality into films. Black HumorFilms will achieve their agenda-setting functions by the choice of the film theme andhas set up a public dialogue platform between individuals and the mainstream power.Black Humor films are of personalization, meaning and connotation, also full of richindividual’s cultural imagination. Audience watch films with a potential demand andpurposes. Black Humor Films have realized the breakthrough of audience expectationfield of vision by using defamiliarization techniques and the introduction of the uglyand the ugly is in pursuit of pluralistic discourse constitute of artistic expression.By analyzing the culture connotation, aesthetic expression, and creativitythinking of Black Humor Films, the paper discusses the artistic value and socialfunctions, afford some suggestions in hope that this cultural morphology can beadopted to promote China’s filmmaking.