Monday, March 12, 2018

In the art world, the artist develops a unique vision of art installations with the sole purpose of engaging with visitors and museum-goers. There is a clear definition of modern art and classical art. The first one is the most misunderstood and less appealing. The second is the most attractive because represents the classic intake from famous sculptors and painters who in the past create work to tell stories in the history of the world.

I love modern art because allows the artist to express their point of view about the what's happening in our society. It is hard to find a film that uses a museum and an art installation as the main theme to discuss and explore human nature.

Ruben Östlund director of the highly acclaimed Force Majeure directs The Square, a satirical drama about Christian (Claes Bang) a museum curator of the X Royal museum of Stockholm who is responsible to launch one of the biggest exhibitions yet, also named The Square.

Christina is divorced with two girls, a player with all the women he dates, but he seems to be very conscious about world problems. As a museum curator, he likes to use The X Royal as a stage to let artist start discussions about the human nature. At the very beginning of the film Christian, it's been interviewed by Anne (Elizabeth Moss) a journalist who develops feelings for Christian after a one night stand together. Christina is supervising the production of the exhibition The Square, but also he is dealing with the robbery of his wallet and his phone on the streets. After this event his assistant as Michael (Christopher Læssø) find the phone using the device geolocation, so he comes with the plan of going to the building where the phone is located and delivering a threating letter to every apartment demanding the return of the wallet and phone.

In essence, the events of the film The Square serves as a metaphor for most of the characters who express a certain mindset but in reality, they don't care about it. The exhibition examines how far you can trust everyone within the square, but then you see that Christian doesn't trust everyone because he's always begging to be trusted. The film also explores how we see the work of museums of modern art exposing visitors to ambiguous self-expression that is supported by millions of dollars and is not clear what the message is. For instance, you see a character like Julian (Dominic West, who is a good renown artist been interviewed at the museum but is constantly interrupted by a guy who suffers from Tourette's disease who barks obscenities to him and moderator, you can easily read this like is making fun of an artist point of view to why this work is considered art.

The Square is a rare film with a not define the genre, is a comedy, is drama, is a social critique.





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