著者

早川 恭只

出版者

美学会

雑誌

美學 (ISSN:05200962)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.63, no.2, pp.97-108, 2012-12-31

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Many films which take disasters like earthquakes as their subjects are fictional. And life goes on (1992) is a movie about the big 1990 earthquake in Iran. However, fiction and reality are interwoven equivalently by Kiarostami. This truly reflects his own style of making films. The earthquake really hit a place where Kiarostami had shot a previous film, and And life goes on is just a fiction based on reality, in which a cineaste who is an actor travels with his son to ask the safety of previous cast members. This film can pretend to be a documentary, but includes the exposure of being fiction, and its fictional images are contrasted by the views of the devastated area and victims' narration. However, the local children seem to play what they should be beyond themselves and their roles in the film. In such their self-direction, we can recognize a truth about children who have got not only a victims' desire to continue living and their daily lives but also the film makers' desire to expect such a situation. The evidence of a child's life can be brought to such interstice between fiction and reality, where the difference between them melts and fuses.