Thursday, 19 January 2017

Lacan in films



This scene from the 1931 possessed, shows Marian looking into windows of a train seeing all her desires, what she currently doesn't have. This shows Lacans lack clearly as Marian sees what she wants, what she has a "lack" of. The way that the train shows is the desires, it is mine en scene of what could fill what she is missing. The placement of the people dancing, Marian watches them from the outside as they dance through the train and finally kiss at the last window. It frames the action perfectly because it focus on how she want romance to feel fulfilled. At the end the train conductor says it's best to look from the inside out, this is showing that in order to feel fulfilled and fill what she has a lack of, is to get on the train and experience it, so she feels in order to be complete getting on the train is the way to do it, however once she is on the train it doesn't mean she will get any of those things, so she will need to continue searching for what she needs to feel fulfilled.

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