The Disappearance of the Girl, the Appearance of the Mother and the Birth of the Myth in The Dead Girl Feast (2008)
Mirror Images and Persona
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https://doi.org/10.35699/2238-2046.2024.52376Keywords:
Cinema, Myth, Ritual, Mirror ImageAbstract
Cinema is understood as a privileged means for thinking about images, their relationship with consciousness and their various masks. The scene of the mother's return in the film The Dead Girl’s Party (2008) is presented, through depth psychology and the notion of mirror image. It is in the depths of the unconscious that the character Santinho’s conflict with his missing mother and his difficulty in letting go of her to follow his own path can be identified. It is concluded that the myth of the dead girl is imposed on the community through a cult of the expression of a violated feminine, also portrayed in the character of Santinho himself and which serves as compensation for the lack of response regarding the disappearance of his mother.
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