"Teorema" Close-up of tragedy and comedy, and the cry of a ghost

ghost's cry

Anne Wiazemsky's Odetta's tightly clenched fists are never raised in any sign of battle. Odetta's body stiffens by her own will, and she is taken to the hospital while still in bondage. Odetta stiffened as she tried to stop her thoughts about her visitor. His fist continued to show stiff resistance, trembling slightly. She even forbids screaming.

Lucia goes out into town and sets out on a journey to have sex with young men. Son Pietro awakens to his instincts as a painter and urinates on the campus. For better or for worse, they will be subject to self-transformation through the visitor's revelations. However, only Odetta, who has stopped time while still alive, is able to maintain her pure heart or her own morals. The only victor in ``Moral and Chaos'' in ``Teorema'' may be Odetta, who remains silent.

"Teorema" (c) 1985 - Mondo TV SpA

Paolo, the naked father, heads towards the shadow that is eroding the desert. This desert takes over into the fable of a nameless young wanderer (Pierre Clementi) who eats human flesh in a `` pig sty ''. In addition, in the sense of a liberated body, the footsteps of the duo who once ate the crow and disappeared into the distance in `` The Big The Birds and the Little The Birds '' (66), who declared that ``the era of Brecht and Rossellini is over.'' Reminds me of.

For Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini is like the father of cinema, just like Charles Chaplin and Kenji Mizoguchi. The ending, which is a close-up of tragedy and comedy at the same time, surpasses the fate of the father's murder. The screams of Paolo as he wanders through the desert in Teorema are the cries of a ghost who longs to surpass all fates, endings, and theorems. The naked Paolo is both a close-up of tragedy and a close-up of comedy. In the wild desert, a ghost called the Self-Disappearer continues to cry out to overcome tragedy and comedy.

*1 “Pasolini On Pasolini: Interviews with Oswald Stack”

*2 Liberation [Interview «Le texte était écrit sur des rouleaux de papier hygiénique»]

*3 Film Comment [Interview: Pier Paolo Pasolini]

Text: Daiji Miyashiro (maplecat-eve)

Movie criticism. Contributed commentary to Eureka's ``Wes Anderson Special'', Real Sound, Toshio Matsumoto special pamphlet, etc.

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From March 4th (Friday), it will be released at Human Trust Cinema Yurakucho, Shinjuku Musashinokan, and other locations nationwide.

Distribution: Zaji Films

(c) 1985 - Mondo TV SpA