Poetry (2010)
Figures
Form & technique
- The final sequence where the camera occupies Mija's perspective after her disappearance
Tropes
- Mija's final act of reporting the crime after paying her share of the settlement → The State of Exception
- The meeting of the perpetrators' fathers in a restaurant → The Banality of Evil
- Mija's sensory experience of looking at an apple
- The discovery of Agnes's corpse floating in the river → The Abject
- Mija's attempts to dress elegantly and her final sexual encounter
- Mija's Alzheimer's diagnosis and her struggle to remember words
- The film's refusal to show the sexual assault of Agnes
- The overall failure of institutions (family, school, police) to achieve justice
- Mija's slight but persistent hand tremor and moments of physical awkwardness → Haptic Visuality
- The writing and recitation of the final poem, "Agnes's Song"
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