De l’expérience pathétique de la fiction visuelle à la lecture des signes littéraires. Analyse de The Matrix et d’Avatar à partir de Michel Henry
From the Pathetic Experience of Movie Fiction to the Reading of Literary Signs

Summary/Abstract: The analysis of the works’ structure in The Matrix and Avatar reveals a similar question about the identity of the subject, which is based on the phenomenological concept of “flesh” defined by Michel Henry. So these two films develop an aesthetic of “resonance”, which means that the visual processing of their diegetic universe operates the passage from hero’s initiation to the spectator’s. The reason is that the pathetic experience of fiction enables an exchange between the audience and the characters that builds a community of affectivities. Furthermore, the initiation, which the viewer is invited to, is precisely reading – decoding and deciphering world’s signs.

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