Lyndonizing Barry: A Hegelian Zoom
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The following essay it’s an analysis of Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon, from some notions proposed by G. W. F. Hegel in The Phenomenology of Spirit. Particularly, how the use of “zoom in” in the film makes possible mediation between Redmond Barry’s individual “I”s, articulated as moments of a logical subjective movement, which accounts for the negative nature of the identity. For that purpose, two specific scenes of the film are analyzed, first, his escape from the British Army and Lady Lyndon’s appearance. It is argued how, in each of them, the zoom proposes the becoming of Other, which denies both the protagonist and the spectator of the film.
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