The Chinese, if one may generalise, do not have a European view of authenticity.
Korine enfolds his actors in a quasi-documentary context and films them with the uninflected signifiers of authenticity — authentic views of a self-conscious artifice.
"They want 'flavor' and 'unique point of view' — the sense of authenticity," he told me.
I obviously was a skeptical reporter when I covered him and did my best, but reading his diaries made me see a lot more about a certain kind of authenticity of views, a certain genuineness of views.
"Virtue" may be corrupted easily, but when realized, it radiates the full embodiment of the Dao understood in terms of qi on Heshanggong's view, or the flourishing of authenticity on Wang Bi's interpretation.
During the cogen session, Tang Wee explained to Tim and Nicky that the purpose of the cogen was to hear from them their views of the science lessons (authenticity) and all of us involved would learn something from one another.
If there's a slight sense of amiable contrivance to it all, it's a paragon of authenticity when viewed beside A Second Chance (Entertainment One, 15), perhaps the worst film to date by Susanne Bier, that peculiarly erratic queen of Scandi melodrama.
Her account is therefore importantly different from the first masquerade account in that it takes seriously trans identities, viewing them as striving for a kind of authenticity.
Viewed in this context, rigid or fundamentalist definitions of authenticity start to feel irrelevant and even rather quaint.
Without notation, unintentional changes soon become the known version, and the viewing public has no idea of the loss of authenticity.
