Otherness as Basis of Artistic Chronotope: Script vs. Film
https://doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2023-25-4-567-576
Abstract
The article describes the existential category of the Other and the Otherness in V. Sorokin's screenplay for the film called 4, which was directed by I. Hrzhanovsky in 2004. The Otherness helped V. Sorokin to realize his artistic idea of post-Soviet Russia. According to Jean Paul Sartre, the Other conveys a feeling of the last days: without a single scene of physical violence, the reader develops a feeling of nausea. The essence of the Other is based on the principles of rejection, fear, and inevitability; the Other is the only verifier of one’s existence. In 4, the frightening atmosphere of the Other World is created by such artistic means as coding, dying, masking, and deconstruction of symmetry. They highlight the artistic intent to portray the chaotic nature of being and the absence of time, where human fate is meaningless, and people are reduced to functions in the game of life. The Otherness of the chronotype gives the script and the film a new code: the loss of the holy number four desacralizes existence, thus condemning the world and people in it to a life of hopeless dismay.
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Anastasia L. Nechaeva
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
Moscow
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Nechaeva A.L. Otherness as Basis of Artistic Chronotope: Script vs. Film. SibScript. 2023;25(4):567-576. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.21603/sibscript-2023-25-4-567-576
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