Travis or the spectator on the mirror/screen of Paris, Texas (1984), by Wim Wenders
Keywords:
cinema, spectator, character, identity, process of subjectificationAbstract
In this essay on the questions of identity, knowledge and recognition of the self, the intersection of the potentialities of these two devices of projection / reflection of the being appears, both in the narrative structure and in the viewing of the film itself as a process of subjectification: the screen and the mirror present in the film “Paris, Texas” (1984) by Wim Wenders. Here, the complex experience of Travis, the protagonist, is revealed, and as it is only through his participation as a spectator in his own plot, that he grasps his world and progresses in resolving his conflicts. It is by looking at this screen of memory, reunion and return, that sometimes becomes a mirror of intense horizontal depth, that character and viewer meet and reflect. Based on the ideas of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur in his studies on narrative, or even under the anthropological ideas in a brief look at the cinema of Edgar Morin, and even in full use of Wenders' own words, this essay intends to clarify the processes that allow character and spectator to reconstruct a new connection, when configuring their narrative identities.
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