Amarcord (noticed that the man on top of the bonfire at the burning of the winter witch is like Uncle Teo up the tree — and the ladder image appears in each of these scenes also.)
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The man on the bonfire is commanding while Uncle Teo is plaintive. “I have, I want, I command” –something like this says the man on top of the bonfire, the one that seats the witch of winter to be burnt –but– “I want a woman!” cries Uncle Teo. The man on the bonfire can’t come down (though wanting to) while Uncle Teo won’t come down (though this is required). (Is the dwarvish nun comparable to the witch of winter?)
(The stones in Uncle Teo’s pockets remind of the stone sucking in Molloy.)
(The farts sound like the motorcars and the motorbiker is called “The Fart.” Fart sounds interrupt the scholar speaking of the past. Our appreciation of or reverence for the past is interrupted by the body’s demands. But the machine/ technology, is demanding like the body.)
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also in Amarcord in the figure of the father was perhaps a demonstration of a principle I recall Zizek or another having talked about: somehow the vehemence and violence of an authority figure is the display of his real impotence –by showing us his fury he shows us also the limits of his power. While the truly powerful and frightening authority figures are reserved, quiet — the nazis who interrogate the father. We can’t see their power’s limits.
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