Monday, September 24, 2007

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N oh the first zombie entries with an excursion to a "similar" issue. I now turn to bones. To skulls and bones. And to the collection and storage. But first it's about the movie "Mondo Cane".

As the name suggests, is to "Mondo Cane" is a so-called "Mondo-film", in the case of "Mondo Cane" as much as the first of all "Mondo films," the founder of the "Mondo genre. A "Mondo-film" is distinguished in that it shows a collage-like collection of various individual scenes whose only common at first glance (and usually on the second and third) their curiosity, sensationalism or even seems to be revolting. Gualtiero Jacopettis "Mondo Cane" may perhaps be an exception here, but what does not matter here. This is about the twenty-first scene of the film.

Nestled in a small topic on human bone she begins with the (odd) sentence: "In Rome you to death the mantle of immortality hangs around." Then you see a crack down to the last neatly decorated with human bones vaulted cellar, where the monks of the Capuchin Order, for centuries, "not only the memory but
rn store the bones of their dead." This may initially sound a little spectacular. In the "sacred space" such a procedure will also probably not unusual. "A reminder of the transience of life, but also proof of the immortality love that survives death, "as the speaker says in even-tone in the background. For a further comment of the speaker is clear now that it is mainly among the dead plague victims to where they have the monks in the Middle Ages included caring for themselves (and kept her until today). But this only in passing.

opened the real absurdity of the scene, the viewer now in the "annual fashion words. In addition to completely dressed in red from head to toe have masked praying monks, people of all ages (but especially children) gathered to clean all bones and skulls. Accompanied by cheerful music proved they sit happily with brushes and rags in the crypt and clean the bones of the dead, and the disturbing a matter of course.

Sources:
Jacopetti, Gualtiero: Mondo Cane. Italy 1962nd

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