CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBTERRAIN SPACE IN LITERATURE AND CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE SUBTERRESTRIAL ELEMENT
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUBTERRAIN SPACE IN LITERATURE AND CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE SUBTERRESTRIAL ELEMENT

Summary/Abstract: In literature as well as in cinematography, the subterrain represents the space from below, situated under another space, which is equivalent to that of the depths. The movement in the subterrain space is developed from a low level to upwards a high one, with a precise objective, that through which the evil is eliminated. The subterrain world is, in fact, an insufficient space for the human being, because it generates some claustrophobic and anguished states of mind.The ideea of the subterrain in literature has also its equivalent in the work Notes from subterrain, by F.M Dostoievski, 1864, who in the first part of his writing investigates the inner most thoughts of the human being constraint to live under the pressure of a civilized, but no longer sacred world. This writing mentions, identifies limit situations, being considered as the first existentialist novel in the world literature.The director’s perspective which has in view the connections betwen the human universe and the inhuman one, differs from that described by Dostoievski, so that the character Frodo Baggins from the novel Lord of the Rings will go down togheter with the ohter members of the Fellowship in the Mines of Moria, a forbidden depth which mustn’t be disturbed. Frodo is tempted by his intention to return to the native space, that is why the camera takes him by surprise frecquently looking back.The subterrain will be disturbed, because the forces of the depths and of the darkness will be unleashed, in opposition with the ones of the good.At the imaginary level of the fantastic type, the subterrain remains a closed and dark space which generates illusions, that mental and physical sufferings.

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