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Változatok (Hõstípusok Bódy Gábor Nárcisz és Psyché címû filmjében)
Versions (Types of Characters in Gábor Bódy's Psyché)

Author(s): Pál Czirják
Subject(s): Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts
Published by: Pannonhalmi Főapátság

Summary/Abstract: In one of the auteur cinema's substantial varieties the characters become parts of a model - in this manner these philosophical or intellectual models give symbolic meanings to the characters. This way to build models is noticeable in some films of Tarkovsky, Bergman and Trier, or - in the Hungarian cinema - in some films of Miklós Jancsó, István Gaál. And Gábor Bódy's film, Psyché is related to this method of treating characters in models. The Plot of Psyché does not become a consistent proposition, but the main characters of the film represent ideas, thoughts, and conducts as models. Thus the narrative outlines timeless recurrences, cycles or struggles of ideas. In the narrative of his film Bódy takes grate interest in the motif of love without fulfilment, in the creating and subversive power of sensuality or sexual desire, in the correlation between time and history, and in the eternal change of worth. And finally the circulation of these elements shows the history of human thinking as a moving and standing one at the same time.

  • Issue Year: 2006
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 87-97
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Hungarian