Allégorie Citadine (2024)
Genre: Fantasy
Duration: 21 minuten
Alternative title: An Urban Allegory
Country:
France
Directed by: JR and Alice Rohrwacher
Stars: Naïm El Kaldaoui, Lyna Khoudri and Leos Carax
IMDb score:
7,0 (947)
Releasedate: 1 September 2024
This movie is not available on US streaming services.
Allégorie Citadine plot
In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato asks: What would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free himself from his chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a seven-year-old boy?
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Fisico
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In itself a nice attempt by Rohrwacher to visualize the famous allegory of the cave of Plato. Nicely done with those collages on the walls. The allegory itself is not that easy to understand and there is some discussion in the philosophical world what exactly Plato meant by it. Everything has to do with your view of things through your own frame of reference and your own sensory perceptions. Only the real world (and truth) is more than your own subjectivity and interpretation. Anyway, that's what I make of it. Maybe The philosopher can put it better or differently 
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De filosoof
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The short film tells the famous story of Plato's cave from Politeia, in which a child steps out of the cave (the theater) to discover reality on the street. You might expect a childlike, and in that sense, pure, truth to be discovered, but in fact, the film leaves open what that reality is: the theme and form are much more concerned with a play on images that fill our world. While in Plato's work, reality can only be seen by a solitary individual (who would then have to become the philosopher-king), the film proposes that we all escape from the cave, making a revolution possible. The film's emphasis on the theme of liberation seems to place Plato's allegory within a typically French poststructuralist framework, such as that of Althusser and Barthes, who analyzed the media and education, as well as popular culture such as advertising and Hollywood films, as ideological instruments of (oppressive) influence. A striking discovery of the film is that the boy discovers that the text "posting posters prohibited" is itself a poster: there is no neutrality, and everything is ideology. This film, too, is ideology. In any case, film also presents an illusion, thus pointing, in a postmodern way, beyond Plato's cave to, for example, the cultural critique of Adorno (Frankfurt School): we cannot escape illusion, but some illusions (capitalism) enslave us, and other illusions (art) can liberate us.
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