Marzenie – lot – przygoda. „Arizona Dream” Emira Kusturicy
Dream – flight – adventure. “Arizona Dream” by Emir Kusturica

Summary/Abstract: An attempt at following images associated with the symbolic of the air and the topos of the dream - experienced both while asleep and awake - in Arizona Dream, a film by Emir Kusturica. This motion picture, suffused with quotations and an intertexual game, a film with a “ludic” formal stratum, is governed by a certain concealed leitmotiv. The latter - as the author of article endeavoured to prove - is a quest for spirituality, a dream about spiritual transformation. The manifestation of this search consists of three motifs: wings (a symbol connected par excellence with the spiritual sphere), attempts at soaring in air in a handmade flying machine, and, finally, a leitmotiv merging the entire work: the image of a flying fish. The latter becomes the reason why two symbolic orders: aerial and aquatic, overlap. The permeation of the two spheres captured in the Kusturica film becomes as if an embodiment of reflections pursued by Gaston Bachelard, who searched for traces of that interference in literary imagery and poetic imagination.

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