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AFDonat - Exercises about the Movie
by - (2010-11-21)
Up to Postmodernism and Possession
In the film you can watch a lot of English settings: Ash's house, London Library, British Museum, Maud's house, Lincolnshire, Lincoln University, Yorkshire, Hodershall.
The naive reader who is watching the film comes across literary institutions for example Libraries, Centres of research, Museums, Historical Houses and monuments, Academies so he is able to understand that the story-line of the movie is made up thanks to this elements and topics.
The role of academy comes into play thanks to the research and the work of the protagonists and some of the characters.
Documents and letters come to the forefront because they are the central engine of story-line: they allow story-line to progress.
Victorian and modern characters come to surface thanks to inner settings.
There are different visions of possession: physical and mental love, possession of precious letters and documents, possession of fame.
Literary erudition comes to surface thanks dialogues between characters and thanks books and letters .
The characterizations of the protagonists are filtered thanks to their thoughts, their actions and speeches.
The director shows the relationship between Maud and Roland in the same time to the new bond between Ash and LaMotte.
The juxtaposition of present and past is made up thanks to the alternation of past and present scenes, flashback.