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Dystopia, Bureaucracy and Identity in Crulic – The Path to Beyond
Dystopia, Bureaucracy and Identity in Crulic – The Path to Beyond

Author(s): Anca Ursa
Subject(s): Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: Death; Laughter; Dystopia; Identity; Bureaucracy; Katabasis.

Summary/Abstract: The allegorical film about a young Romanian victim of the Polish justice system is an upside-down dystopia, in the three-dimensional mirror of the real. A typical Kafkaesque character passes the path to death in a world that refuses to hear him. We see dystopia as a study method, not as a purpose for the analytical investigation. In addition, we do not start from the idea that this is the opposite of an ideal world, but it’s the utopia converted into a degraded version which unfolded badly. I applied two scales of understanding to a deep and challenging scenario: the sociological theories about the world as a dysfunctional mechanism and the archetypes of the contemporary imaginative.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 29
  • Page Range: 365-371
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English