A knife at the heart. Gaspar Noé: filmmaker of a contemporary social? The tragedy of a man (alone) in the tragedy of the century

What are the limits of the cinematographic treatment of “morals “ and “justice”? Gaspar Noé’s film “ Alone Against All” has the virtue of testingour capacity to tolerate the emergence of the real. Is it the violence of the original traumas (slaughter of the father and abandonment of the mother)repai...

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Main Author: Broda, Vladimir
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2020
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/29214
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Summary:What are the limits of the cinematographic treatment of “morals “ and “justice”? Gaspar Noé’s film “ Alone Against All” has the virtue of testingour capacity to tolerate the emergence of the real. Is it the violence of the original traumas (slaughter of the father and abandonment of the mother)repairable, or is it condemned to be repeated from generation to generation? The definitions of morality and justice are moved throughout this film,framed in the heart of a historical-social tragedy: the symbolic law makes no more law. In these coordinates, is not the subject condemned to transgress, even in a rescue of “love”, the symbolic law of the prohibition of incest? “