Abstract
The article offers a Valentinian interpretation of the Hollywood film The Others (2001). A particular attention is paid to the ways in which cinematic motifs and narrative elements of the film draw on myths, ideas and symbolic imagery present in Valentinian works, especially in the Gospel of Truth (NHC I, 3) and the Gospel of Philip (NHC II, 3). In the course of the heuristic analysis, the paper argues that although the film employs Valentinian ideas, it depicts different understanding of the world. This issue is addressed in the last part of the article by situating the film within broader contexts that refer to the transformations of religion in the second half of the twentieth century in Western societies.
Recommended Citation
Kwiatkowski, Fryderyk.
"The Others (2001) by Alejandro Amenábar in the Light of Valentinian Thought."
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture
21.6
(2019):
<https://doi.org/10.7771/1481-4374.3200>
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