Fairy tales in faraway places

  Ricardo Pigalia’s novel, El Camino de Ida , is loosely based on the real-life events of the Unabomber case whereby Ted Kaczynski was responsible for a series of political bombings against prominent intellectuals over a span of two decades.   As such this essay will investigate the motives of the ‘Recycler’, in relation to the political ideology of Kaczynski published in his political manifesto, The Industrial Society and Its Future. The Recycler, also known in the novel as Monk, wrote a similar such text titled the Manifesto on Techno-Capitalism . At the centre of the argument, it critiques capitalism and the negative effect it has on modern society by taking away people’s autonomy and freedom as well as the negative impact it had on the environment. Without going into detail, capitalism is defined as a “organismo vivo” [1] that reproduces endlessly due to its capacity for economic and technological renewal. While their manifestos can be considered a ‘brilliant critique’ on...

  The still that will be examined in this report is of the final shot of Roberto Rossellinis black and white film Roma Citta Operta . A group of young children are walking along a hillside overlooking the city of Rome in 1944, seen in the long shot of the dome of St Peter’s which is clearly visible in the distance. The still takes place just after the children have witnessed the execution of the anti-fascist priest Don Pietro during the Nazi occupation of Italy. The camera angle is situated slightly above the heads of the children, giving an overview of the both the landscape and the children, connecting the two together. Some of the children are in groups of two, walking arm in arm, supporting and holding each other up. No matter the individuals that have been lost during the course of the film such as Don Pietro, there will always be others who would take their place as seen through the significance of a group rather than the individual. The children appear to be galvanized by ...