Monday, March 28, 2011

The Scar (1976)




What is the social, what is the common, what does it mean the possibility of having a "common responsibility"? As cars invade the forest, mapping through the woods the place where the trees will fall and the fumes will erect, the question of a whole town (and of a nation, of a continent) becomes the metonymy of one consciousness, one person who cannot comprehend and circumscribe it, but who at least acknowledges certain limit. A film about a society, a factory, the state, that through its soundtrack of uncanny machinery (more similar to a syncopated heart than to a piston) points to the echo beneath the construction, under the ideal and the notion of a town, a country, a society and maybe more precisely of two people together. Beneath all this a certain guilt that still cannot be publicly acknowledged, that perhaps can only be--quietly--suggested, because it is always a personal matter.

4 stars.

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