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旦夕永恆：安哲羅普洛斯的記憶與時間
Angelopoulos’ Eternality and a Day
Dr. Louis Lo （勞維俊）[email protected]
Associate Professor,
Department of English, Taipei Tech.
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Theodoros Angelopoulos
• 1935 - 2012
• Studied law at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens
• Studied film at the the Institute of Advanced
Cinematographic Studies at Paris
• Regular collaborators
– cinematographer Giorgos Arvanitis,
– screenwriter Tonino Guerra
– composer Eleni Karaindrou.
Eternality and a Day (1998)
• Set in Thessaloniki, the second largest (port)
city in Greece
• Characters:
– Alexander (and his dog)
– Urania, Alexander’s ex-house keeper
– An unnamed boy from Albania
– Anna, Alexander’s dead wife
– Katrina Alexander’s daughter
– A dead c19th poet Dionysios Solomos
Questions
• Discuss the different Chinese translation of the titles
‘Eternity and a Day’.
• How the past and the present are mixed? (How flash backs
are used to create the past? How many layers of the past
are presented?)
• How time is represented differently?
• How music is used? (to create memory?)
• What is the importance of using long-take cinematography?
• How does the notion of time changes when the film
unfolds?
• How is the city represented? In what way are people
framed in architecture and/or space? What different sorts
of activities are shown?
Sequence 1
OPENING
Sequence 2
SEEING THE DAUGHTER
Memory
• Memory is done in the present, remembering
the past
• Important memory is not voluntary: it cannot
be accessed by the intellect
• The involuntary memory contains the most
important, repressed past
Sequence 3
WEDDING AND FUNERAL
On Experience and Memory
• Benjamin, ‘Some Motifs in Baudelaire’
• Benjamin, ‘The Image of Proust’
• How does memory change when the structure of
experience changes?
– ‘Experience is indeed a matter of tradition, in
collective existence as well as private life. It is less the
product of facts firmly anchored in memory than of a
convergence in memory of accumulated and
frequently unconscious data.’
– The ‘after-image’
• Proust’s novel In Search of Lost Time
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Two kinds of memory
• Mémoire involontaire (involuntary memory)
– ‘the past is somewhere beyond the reach of the
intellect, and unmistakably present in some
material object, … though we have no idea which
one is it.’
• Mémoire volontaire (voluntary memory)
– ‘The information which it gives about the past
retains no trace of it.’
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Sequence 4
BUS
Motifs
• Mixing reality and illusion
– Music
– People encountered
– The 3 cyclists
– Repetition and return
Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
• Eternal Recurrence
• Cf. On the Vision and the Riddle:
– Life is not linear
– Time recurs
– ‘Was that life? Well then! Once more!’
Sequence 5
ENDING
Derrida: life death
• The boundary between life and death should not
be thought of as clear cut
• Life and death are one thing
• To live: the concept of death is brought in life
• Cf. Derrida ‘Freud and the Scene of Writing’
– ‘Life must be thought of as the trace before Being
may be determined as presence. This is the only
condition on which we can say that life is death, that
repetition and the beyond of the pleasure principle
are native and congential to what which they
transgress’ (203)