Lucky to be alive, czyli jak przetrwać w świecie / jak przetrwać w obrazie
Lucky to Be Alive, or How to Survive in the World/in an Image

Summary/Abstract: The author ruminated about the relation between the film image and reality, film “subjectivism” and “objectivism”, and selected as her point of departure an attempt at a theoretical view of montage as the basic practice applied by censorship. In exceptional cases, censorship, whose task is usually the elimination of all that appears to be menacing or disturbing in the film matter, proves to be a practice consisting of an implantation into the film image of elements used for taming it and rendering it unambiguous. Those alien elements, inserted into the film via montage, function in the manner of a fig leaf, which, however, cannot be interpreted exclusively in the categories of authority and its pacifying or moralising activity within the domain of art. In his last film: Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, permitting, or perhaps outright provoking the inevitable intervention of censorship into the key orgy scene, revealed the very essence of our fear of images, which in the cinema often turn into fear of the camera and the power that it wins over the perception of the protagonist and the spectator.

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