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JUBILEE: A JOURNEY IN TIME


By Mary Lucia Moncayo

Student Special Broadcasting

The Moviola


Derek Jarman proposes a fictional journey through time. Two different and contradictory eras in time and space, but also essentially for to each other in terms of the possibility of the hypothesis, producing a rich and articulate particular time and space.

Be Part of the golden age of English around the year 1558 and 1600 during the reign of Elizabeth I (Elizabeth I) called the Virgin Queen, in the very emergence of the British Empire, a term coined by John Dee also a historical figure who accompanies the virgin queen on a journey both prophetic and apocalyptic.

This commences overtones are distilled from the director's personality and his interest in the history of their nation. Especially in the Elizabethan period which also arise so great literary figures as William Shakespeare and Edmund Spencer.
John Dee played by Richard O'Brien manages a subtle and loquacious language as epic allegory, showing the taste of the director of the Spencerian stanza 9 Alexandrine verses.

The delicate and polite interlocutions between the "Virgin Queen" and his guardian lead to another historic event, the growing interest mathematician and astronomer John Dee in the world of spiritualism and magic. These facts allow queen and guardian to soak in the invocation of a divine spirit (Ariel), who at the request of the queen's plunge into the "waters of knowledge."

is then being transported from Mortlake (house of John Dee) in 1597 to a later time, to England in 1977 where reality set in terms opposite to those of an ideal society. A company located in the distant future where the consequences of manipulation and indoctrination by the mass media industry produce the extermination of all citizens.

noticed a difference between the scenes of Queen Elizabeth and her companions of the time contrasted with the punks of the future. The scenes of the queen have a melodramatic but preserve the historical plausibility. It distinguishes a diffuse contrast between light and shadow that becomes a significant factor in the connotation of the shares; promoting effect of nostalgia, reverie. As regards the representation of actors perceived Brechtian style, stylish body giving centrality to the movement overall.

But the future of the successive scenes the director opts for a representation and different treatment, similar to cinema verite, leading to a subjective realism by increasing the expressiveness to the work of a dynamic and energetic chamber, constantly using the zoom, decisions consonant with the actions of the characters are always moving and restless.

The following sequence introduces us to many of the main characters in the film and we are instructed in the new order of things in this dystopian universe. Abolished authority, a world without a clear hierarchy that exercise social control over the individual. Point where most people tend to say that Jubilee is a punk movie and makes apology to anarchy (anarchy as synonymous with disorder and civil war.). There is no denying that the aesthetic premises of the punk movement and nurture the film, but the intention is the opposite Jarman, the director forces us to reconsider the price of absolute freedom, no one could survive in a world. Despite this personal view of anarchy both held by the punk movement of the seventies (disorder and war) as the director's vision (product of fear and horror that infuse governments with the eventual destruction and lack of government) seems appropriate to reformulate the basic tenets of anarchy: anarchy

Who says government says negation, denial
Who says government statement said the people;
affirmation of the people who says says individual freedom;
Who says individual liberty, says sovereignty of each;
Who says sovereignty of each, says equality;
Who says equality, says solidarity or fraternity;
Who says fraternity, says social order.

said this and making clear the meaning of the term anarchy, we could take the nihilism which are governed by the vast majority of the characters in the film.
Amyl Nitrate is revealed after the introduction by Mad as daunting as the heroine of temporary space. It is in this scene where he distills the ideological position of the violent biker gang. Amyl states where obsolescence and uselessness of art at that time, he to his view it was necessary to channel the desires of people to a safe harbor and replaced by fantasy.

With the abolition of power structures and once the wishes come true this channeling of desires was no longer necessary and establishing new premises: "make your Desires reality", "do not dream it, be it ".
truths of that time are emphasized by the camera set rigid, static front. However
the next scene where Amyl recalls with nostalgia his dedication to dance is important for several aspects: a.

The use of allegory: they represent people through art and death. A strong counterpoint that represents the beauty dying around the destruction. B.

Considering that the story is transmitted to us through images and sounds, the embodiment of this sequence is full of underlying code. The image changes its format, filmed in Super 8 and accompanied by classical music that represents the aesthetic point of view of the now defunct ruling class. sound and visual treatment suggests a distant past and outdated.


c. The burning of books, jubilee books obsolete represent an object of a thorough knowledge that can not be acquired through images. Trivial thing for the new order of things where you own importance is what can be purchased through images, a superficial glance. The following

used scenes shots of the homes where the gang of women bikers with the Sphinx and Angel incestuous twins. In an internal monologue Amyl presents to friends and elaborates on his conception of history. Here the long shots, long deep compounds are used to transmit large amount of information that forces the eye to move objects to the characters and the environment obtaining large depth of field full of iconic information.

The staging of all visible elements in the film, stage, costumes, props and lighting is demonstrative of the use of the nascent punk aesthetic and iconography of the seventies.

exist in the film a number of scenes that, although scattered throughout the film have a strong causal thread and give it a temporary drive to work, Bod (short Boudica was a warrior queen the Iceni, he heads several British tribes, including the Trinovants neighbors, for the longest uprising against the Roman occupation between 60 and 61 d. C., during the reign of Emperor Nero), is in hot pursuit harassing a woman, he runs into an abandoned cabin where she is killed, it is worth noting here the style of the author to write counterpoint images with strong visual sense that gravitate between beauty and destruction (remember the sequence of the dancer) here despite the explicit violence of the murder of women, the image tends to end the barbarity of the delicacy of beauty represented by the flowers in the foreground the scene.

After being murdered women are stripped of their belongings, Bod escapes. After a child picks up a diamond near the body of the murdered woman and look through it. In the next scene reveals the identity of the woman killed in the proud moment Bod shows off your booty, it's Isabel II. Later
travelers passed along with the angel clairvoyant reach the scene of Elizabeth II, the dwarf companion of the queen of the past, curious, wandering through the rubble to find the child, who had the gem, this returns to the ubiquitous eyes of the angel. This scene demonstrates the skill with which the director handles the film time setting up a paradox.
The gem gift from his ancestors is recovered by travelers from the past avoiding being lost and so return to the past to once again be inherited by their descendants.
This fact expresses the idea of \u200b\u200beternal return and restitution of a historical nature and thus distorts the reflection on the historical reconstruction of the reality posed by Amyl nitrate. Jubilee

despite its obvious aesthetic and iconography of punk and the various appearances of musical icons of this movement that has led to assert that this film is a "punk film" is far from all of the true essence of the work, which the author delves into the true nature of art and the position of artist in the World (this reflection is expressed in the character of Viv which is the most humanly portrayed able to feel and love and who holds the key to a better future.)

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