She asks Lorca who he is, and he replies, "I'm an actor!" When Emiliano confirms this ("Yes, he is an actor playing Lorca in a play"), Paquita says, "He does look like him!" The scene is performed so naturally, and with such a lack of postmodern self-consciousness, that one must congratulate the director, Michael Greif, on the light ease of his staging.
It is present when, for the current acts of experiencing that one is doing, consciousness of one act of experiencing (consciousness of how one is experiencing something, for example seeing it, imagining it,...) provides consciousness of other acts of experiencing.
Einstein said "Problems cannot be solved with the same consciousness that created them" What no-one seems to be suggesting is that we in fact may be acting deleteriously on the planet through our global paranoia on a mass-consciousness level ala Carl Jung.
The frustrations and anger towards the system of the guy getting beaten by the cop, the newborn baby crying, those fighting the blood and hatred in the air, and Tom Joad the man, form a larger social consciousness that brings them all together as one.
Consciousness, that is, vs. awareness.
This leaves all of humanity terrified and acutely aware of something that people in normal conditions usually push to the back burners of their consciousness: that no one knows whether we have decades of joys and sorrows to look forward to or if today is the last day of the rest of our lives.
Instead, it's the sort of thing everyone in the family knows about, in that vague, just-beneath-consciousness way that one knows what one isn't supposed to know.
Like Kant, Hegel thinks that one's capacity to be conscious of some external object as something distinct from oneself requires the reflexivity of self-consciousness, that is, it requires one's awareness of oneself as a subject for whom something distinct, the object, is presented as known (a result emerging in Chapter 3).
Whatever happens, in the same way there is the anthropological concept cultural relativism, we must be ready for consciousness relativism — the idea that one consciousness may be totally different than another, despite the hope that math, logic and coding will be obvious communication tools.
His cinematic manner reveals an intense, almost unbearable self-consciousness, an awareness (one that's found in the story as well) of the ubiquity of media and of life lived in perpetual performance, on a permanent stage.
