Film Analysis
Student’s name: Luz
Stella Deaza Muñoz
Theme: Analysis of the film der Name Rose
Film Title: Der Name
der Rosa
Director´s name:
Country: Jean Jacques
Annaud
Year: 1986
Fuente:
Ova- EAN (2015)
Quote from the film:
The film “der
Name Rose” is a production based on the novel by Umberto Eco and published in the
year 1980, a co-production between Italy, West Germany and France, lasting
about 126 minutes, in English, and its economic budget is about $ 20 million. The
making time of the film was about five years.
The plot is developed in
the year 1327 (XVI century), a period called "obscurantist" where the
church maintained its hegemony, but the reason. The thought was beginning to
take its first steps. The monasteries where the film takes place in a
Benedictine abbey, where mysterious murders are hidden occur without valid
reasons. Scenarios that transports the beholder to the middle age, an era of
inquisition and feudal age. A large library is the most important and
mysterious place of the film. There are books written in Latin on parchment,
indecipherable labyrinths, a big cold, and the whole repression used by the
church.
Its director Jean Jacques
Annaud Starring: Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya
Baskin, Michael Lonsdale, Volker Prechtel, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., William
Hickey, Michael Habeck, Urs Althaus. Script: Gérard Brach, Andrew Birkin, Alain
Godard, Howard Franklin. Distribuidora 20th Century Fox Studio: Films Ariane,
Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), Radiotelevisione Italiana, Neue Constantin
Film, Cristald iFilm, France Cinema 3.
Conceptual Analysis of the film
The history of the movie “in the name of the rose”, is developed in the
sixteenth century. Begins with the arrival of two Francis monks to a
Benedictine monastery. William of Burkesville and his young charge: Aldso De
Mesk arrive to attend a summit meeting of the clergy, which seek to establish
if Jesus Christ was poor or rich. In turn the abbot asked to the monk
"William of Baskerville" to decipher a series of murders that has
been presented at the abbey in recent times.
William reflects the modern
man, educated and prepared academically. With this training the monk is able to
carry out research using the scientific method known for this time.
William and Aldso begin
their journey in the midst of a feudal system where all the monks living in the
abbey must perform different activities. Some work on tasks such as:
agriculture, various trades, care of the house. But other monks are devoted to
studying and writing in a mysterious and full of mazes library. Insight and
William reason, along with the unconditional support of Aldso take them
discover that the murders have been carried out in a very particular way. All
monks have been killed have remained long in the library. This is a sign that
reflects the dominance of the church, and how to preserve its hegemony
subjected the people to ignorance and fear. Knowledge, joy and pleasure was a
grave sin for the church, so that he who come to read forbidden books was
accused of heresy. (Cause of the killings, discovered by Aldso and William). The
fear for the church was that knowing science lead to the disobedience of the
people to know their farce. The library contained books that very few monks had
access. Another very important issue that the film tells us, is the forensic
technique used at this time because the bodies were analyzed by intuition
rather not by knowledge or reason.
And finally, the practices
of torture and murder carried out by the Holy Inquisition that as the film
shows, the defendants were required to qualify as guilty and take the blame,
facts that supported the realization of the most heinous crimes and torture in
the name of God".
Personal Analysis and Reflections
The Film is an evocation of the dark ages, where the church owned the
power, avoiding no matter what the freedom of thought. However, despite all
crimienes who performed the church in the name of "God" begins to
lose control.
As stated by Parra
(2005) the man begins to establish the reason, pass from a cosmocentric view of
reality to an anthropocentric vision. The plot around the film shows how the
man begins to discover himself as the center of the world. The story goes back
to the fourteenth century, here reflected a medieval thinking, starting crashes
between politics and the church for the power, however, also the feudal period
had its power, where everyone works together to the general welfare. Another
interesting facet is the love, tenderness and desire that made Slater change
his paradigms and feels like a man of flesh and blood, he is able to feel the
desire and the passion for a woman.
It's a pretty interesting
story because through the crimes committed there in thought-provoking topics as
Machiavellian as they were: the "Holy Inquisition" as a regime of
terror. But also through the mysterious deaths it gives way to research and
intuition, and the very history of humanity through time. William of
Baskerville embodies the rational, anxious and able to change the destiny of
the mankind.
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