The post-modern individual in Yorgos Lanthimos’ cinema
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https://doi.org/10.12795/Ambitos.2022.i55.10Keywords:
Yorgos Lanthimos, film analysis, fílmico, posmodernismo, neoexistencialismo, identidadAbstract
In 2018, Yorgos Lanthimos’ film The Favourite received 10 Oscar nominations. The director also became a regular in Cannes. These awards are a great recognition of Lanthimos' success, and are even more poignant for an alternative filmmaker who started in crisis-hit Greece. This work analyses Lanthimos’ films and deliberates about the portrait the author makes of the post- modern individual. It identifies the common characteristics throughout its filmography and from those observations it invites meditation on the current capitalist system. It argues that in contemporary post-modern society individuals have suffered a strong alienating process in which subjectivity has been denied. Romantic relationships have become an immediate and disposable source of pleasure and sex has become a consumable good. Language has shown its inefficiency in creating emotional ties between people and also in its purpose of making sense of reality and it has become a tool for the powerful to keep their subjects under control. As a consequence, individuals are unable to connect with each other and in the absence of a common goal they find themselves completely isolated and alone.
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