Cinema Roads to the Platonic Image of the Cave

Abstract

Podeu consultar la versió en català a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12085; i en castellà a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/12083

Versió de l'article anteriorment publicat a: Itaca: quaderns catalans de cultura clàssica v. 19, (2003) p. 189-216

The aim of this article is to prove the real possibility of travelling intellectually to the Platonic image of the cave from different films. In this sense, one can speak of explicit references as in The Conformist by B. Bertolucci or in Shadowlands by R. Attenborough -if one bears in mind the Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis- or The Picture of Dorian Gray ¿if one bears in mind the well-known O. Wilde¿s novel-, but, on other occasions, although the Platonic influence cannot be proved, for instance in The Truman Show, A Room with a View or Brideshead Revisited, one can perfectly think of these films in order to guide the contemporary audiences to that Platonic image, since Plato himself affirms that it deals with an image which can be easily applied and, in first place, to his idealistic philosophy.