At the heart of a new stage ~~"Le nom de la rose [VHS]"

Le nom de la rose [VHS]

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 At the heart of a new stage, 2000-12-30

This is not a religious film, even if religious questions are important. It is a film about the importance of knowledge, research and humor in life. Without knowledge man is obliged to regress back to some kind of animal survival. Without research man is unable to progress and humanity is blocked in injustice because the powerful will always desire to be rich too, and without progress the rich will force the poor to get always poorer. Without humor and laughter man is not human, man is only some kind of domestic animal for those who will laugh over their heads because they are powerful and rich enough to do in secret. The fourth question that is touched in this film with great sensitivity is that of love as a growing step in the life of a teenager. By love the author clearly means desire and even lust, as it is called in the film. The question is to know whether a teenager can really mature without going through this essential existential and structuring experience. These questions are craftily wrapped up in some kind of a thriller, monks dying one after the other because they try to read a book by Aristotle that a blind and old sectarian man, who keeps the librarian under his influence, has poisoned. This desire to forbid culture to his fellow monks leads him into killing them, into a criminal activity and into the absolute hypocrisy of accusing the devil of the deed and of leading three innocent people to the stake. This reveals also the role of the thought-police that the Inquisition used to be. In spite of the past period in which the action is situated this is a perfectly modern film since it deals with the attempt of some powerful people, be they monks, be they politicians, be they administrative tyrants, be they the police or anything else, to control the minds of their fellow citizens, their minds and their private life of course. In other words it is a film that rejects the post-modern approach of our society where private life is invaded in the name of the fight against crime. It is a real declaration that private life, private thought and intelligent thinking are more important in this world than anything else, because they are the engine that makes humanity progress and improve. And Sean Connery is definitely the man of the situation. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, Paris Universities II and IX.

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