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Mel Gibson's movie The Man Without a Face, Selected and introduced for ELLOPOS by Nat Gerrs

 

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You need Windows Media Player, or whatever can stream asf files, to listen to the audio excerpts that follow.

 

Prologue: The dream(2'24'')

The perfect dream we've already talked about (see above).

 

First act: Learn of leave (3'19'')

Charles comes to ask McLeod to become his tutor. Like a good Latin teacher he demands trust as discipline and orders Charles to dig a hole. It is the first act of a play in which gradually McLeod attempts to be a teacher again, to remove the mask and let his memory work in the present of a person. He is still distant - an empty space must be covered before a face begins to laugh.

 

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 Cf. Someone Like Hodder | Rilke, Letter to a young poet | Jaspers, Truth is in communication | J. O. y Gassett, The Revolt of the Masses | Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society | Wordsworth's and Magee's poems | K. Mansfield, There was a child once

More by Nat Gerrs : Why Europe? | J. M. Lefévre, The White Thinking