Is my film postmodern?

Postmodernism is the rejection of modernist views and beliefs, postmodernism focuses highly on play, chance and anarchy (Ihab Hassan).  It claims that there is no absolute truth and that the way people perceive the world is subjective. Postmodernism has influenced many cultural fields, including religion, literary criticism, sociology, linguistics, architecture, history, anthropology, visual arts, and music.

The traditional narrative structure as described by Tvzetan Todorov suggests narrative is simply equilibrium, disequilibrium, new equilibrium. This structure has been manipulated and distorted within postmodern films, this can be seen in texts such as Pulp Fiction or Donnie Darko. A non-linear narrative changes the traditional audience text relationship and turns it into something new and exciting. If my film were to be created in full it would conform to this postmodern feature, as one of the themes in my film is mental instability or psychosis having a scattered or non chronological narrative would put the viewer in the position of the mentally unstable character, creating confusion and distortion. This would apply the Obstinate Audience Theory to my production as often with narratives like this it is mainly up to interpretation and influence that a message or understanding is put across.

Baudrillard's theory of Hyperreality can be placed within the confines of my 'film'. If creating this whole production I wouldn't want to create an overly realistic feel, I would want the audience to feel as if anything could happen in this strange, distorted story. As the story is told from the point of view of my mentally unstable 'heroine' the story and imagery could reflect what goes on in her mind, which would work well using hyperreality. Perhaps using imagery and effects like in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Antichrist. These kind of films also relate to Jameson's theories on postmodernism. "In a postmodern age we are living in a hallucination, a reality evaporating into a mere spectacle", both of these films feature hallucinatory or distorted imagery to reflect the mental states or realities of the characters.