Through the Looking Glass: Parnassus between magic and illusions
Nico Carlucci
In these days comes out in Italian cinemas movie "Parnassus: the man who would cheat the devil" by Terry Gilliam. It 'a show of Wonderland, factories desires and visual toys. About a man, Parnassus is played immortality with the underworld and wins give up immediately after love. Now wanders in search of men and women to seduce, with its fairy-rich bandwagon spells. Stunning is the interpretation of Tom Waits that is just the devil. The film is an extraordinary cast of dwarves, angels, dancers and lovers of magic and melancholy. And what about Heath Ledger that sets hanged under a London bridge? Here life and death of the match. We remember his death in January of 2008, just 28 years for drug overdose. "Parnassus" is the last movie that Ledger did not finish the work (or has ended?) Because of his death. The friends-actors Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Colin Farrel in the movie take its place and not even because you know it part of the game mirrors that of the characters and the extras crossing during the "show". Phantasmagoria of colors, surrealism of the secret depths of concrete representation of the character of Tony-fiction that will return and eventually hanged again, really (the death of Ledger that the "interpretation").
Who is the actor? Well, by definition, he "reads" the beginning and then accepts the fiction of representation. He has a "party" that stores and re-creates through its "interpretation". The role of the actor is born and dies with him that the delivery to "posterity". The latter, in turn, re-interpret wholesale-finished by the tragedy that goes beyond the show. The viewer is in and out with the actor that "applauds and says" fine "if he says it. And 'what happened to Heath Ledger?
The actor is delicate because he lives the fiction of what" is "on the scene, on the set, the cinema.CiĆ² also explains the feeling that accompanies the personality that "pretends" a character that goes by, therefore, from one role to another. And 'this, I think, the fragility of those who "re-flex" the soul. I think Ledger it was just that. The actor had played the figure of the joker in another movie "premonition", "The Dark Knight where Heath lives insomnia," bravery "and the anxiety of one who goes away too early (Oscar post-mortem) to "complete" the Life