Tag: Fascism

• The Psychology of Fascism in Bertolucci’s “The Conformist”

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci’s tour de force follows a fascist agent of the secret police whose assignment is to assassinate his former university professor. Set mostly in 1938., it doesn’t deal with broader societal aspects of the rulling regime, it is a study of a personality, Marcello’s, who willingly serves the fascist regime. When one of the…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  November 9, 2018

  Bernardo Bertolucci, European cinema, Italian cinema

  Authoritarian, Authority, Cinematography, Fascism, Father, Freud, Godard, Philosophy, Plato, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, University

• Never Let Me Go (2010) – Path to Completion

  

    Title card: The breakthrough in medical science came in 1952. Doctors could now cure the previously incurable. By 1967, life expectancy passed 100 years. Never Let Me Go is based on a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro; the film describes the dystopian reality which takes place more than 50 years before the film was made.…

  Vigour of Film Lines

  September 19, 2018

  American cinema, British cinema, Commonwealth cinema

  Art, Ethics, Existentialism, Fascism, Humanity, Kazuo Ishiguro, Life, Love, Moral Theory, Morality, Mortality, Philosophy, Sexuality, Soul, Spirituality