Metafora narativă și mirajul nordului in filmul marocan: între haram şi halal
The Narrative Metaphor and the Mirage of the North in the Moroccan Film between Haram and Halal

Summary/Abstract: Triggered by the suggestion of viewing and discussing an important creation of contemporary Moroccan cinema, suggestion which came from the Moroccan medical students of the first year of „Victor Babeş” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, during a cultural anthropology seminar, the study is, in the first place an exercise to an intercultural dialogue, with both an identity and integrative role. The lecture of the filmic stylistics does not neglect the configurations of a metaphorical nature, those cine-phrases that evoke the process of an internal speech: the postcolonial wounds, the conflict between generations, the tension between traditionalism (to remain in your own country even if it is just because your “hello” is returned, even if hypocritically) and Occident (on the principle that no one is a prophet in their own country). The last one, is identified in a movie like Casanegra (the name of Casablanca, in the outcasts code), with Sweden, the country in which „the snow can cleanse the spirit, and the women are white and soft like egg withes”. The comparison is sublime: symbol of the feminine matrix, metonymy of the mythical ancestor, the sun itself is blocked between the World above and the one bellow (heaven and hell), the egg is the reason of every beginning. Bachelard already said in The Psychoanalysis of Fire that”… as long as we will not analyze the satiated man we will be missing several affective primordial elements in order to understand the psychology of the realistic proof” (1989:72).

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