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Universidad de La Habana
On-line version ISSN 0253-9276
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RAMIREZ CASTELLANOS, Ronald Antonio. Alzheimer and savoir-faire: two lessons of cinema and an esthetics of counter-history. UH [online]. 2019, n.288, pp.1-19. Epub Sep 10, 2019. ISSN 0253-9276.
I undertake an approach to the historic fact in two recent films in this essay of film analysis: The Darkest Hours (2017) by the Britisher Joe Wright and Dunkirk (2017) by also English Christopher Nolan. Both films take like narrative epicenter the stool of the allied ranks laid siege to at Dunkerque's port by the powerful warlike machinery of the Germany Nazi during Second worldwide war. My interest in this analysis is to demonstrate how the esthetic of these films is able to articulate a discourse against the stream that not always dismounting of the dominant ideology in his interpretation of the historic fact. In his rewriter process of history, country, his culture and notable figures these films magnifying the image, placing them in the interregnum of the myth and the legend. Overall sights, both films, in the present, back up the political intentionality to ponder the reproductibility of the hegemonic discourse and the privileged sociopolitical status of London at the worldwide scene, favorable to the national concerns.
Keywords : The Darkest Hour; Dunkirk; cinema; history; ideology.