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100	1	0	_aIacub, Marcela _eauthor
245	0	0	_aWhat Does it Mean to be a Murderer? On Luis Buñuel’s The Criminal Life of Archibald de la Cruz
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520			_aAccording to traditional readings, The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) tells the story of a man who believes he is a murderer, when in fact he is merely entertaining criminal fantasies in which dreams and reality are confused. Hence the film is supposedly a kind of hymn to individual freedom. Like Sade, Archibaldo merely lives in an imaginary world where everything is possible, a world upon which no democracy can place its limits. I seek to reconsider this traditional interpretation, and to show that, far from celebrating the freedom to dream, Buñuel converts the frontier between dream and reality into a political problem. He explains to us that these frontiers, far from being natural, are constructed by the law. Moreover, he tries to show that they function through magical rather than rational processes. Thus he pursues a longstanding reflection on democratic justice initiated by Poe when he invented detective stories. I shall briefly show how, with this film, Buñuel joins a long critical tradition.
690			_aa monkey murderer
690			_adream and reality
690			_apenal justice and ordeal
690			_aBuňuel
690			_adetective stories and criticism of justice
690			_anatural and juridical frontiers
690			_a The Life of Archibaldo of the Cruz
786	0		_nSavoirs et clinique | o 17 | 1 | 2014-11-03 | p. 34-40 | 1634-3298
856	4	1	_uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-savoirs-et-cliniques-2014-1-page-34?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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