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Jul 21, 2023
Abstract
In this essay we propose that in The Others, Alejandro Amenábar creates an allegory for the transition from obscurantism to the values of the Enlightenment as Emmanuel Kant defined this movement typical of modernity. Amenábar makes Grace –the film’s main character– discover the gaps in her memory and thus to face the uncanny: something that once was fully familiar and conscious but, due to its strong traumatic burden, was expelled to the world of unconsciousness and, in the present of the plot, it returns as something sinister and alien. Amenábar criticizes an education based on fear and a blind faith while exploring the foundations of an education for democracy, a process associated with the collaborative search for truth.
Keywords: Enlightenment, modernity, education for democracy, Alejandro Amenábar, The Others.
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