Thursday, 24 December 2009

Notes on the structure of space and time

By Ignacio Oliva


"Nobody´s rose " presents a structured screenplay in four space/time showing different way of advancing on the story. We place the drama in three different stages of movement of history and a natural narrative space, which space does not go through with a narrative that gives a symbolic key to the development of story itself. This approach can be seen at four levels:

The labyrinth of memory

The first driven space / time reflects the consequences of the dark search of DANIEL which leads him erratically and under a dark drive to the evocation of a moment hurt by the memory. This is the space and time of the labyrinth of memory: a place which is sublimated into a kind of "meta-site" symbolized by the train. This train travels around an unreal geography, dreamlike, where the scene itself of revocation is announced, at last, under a concept of fate.

Prisons of thought

Secondly we propose a narrative space in which MANUELA is situated which is crossed by another dark drive: the drug as a refuge and which represents the negation of memory, the claim of voluntary forgetting, personal anesthesia on a not accepted fact. It represents, somehow, a blind life or denied.

Natural present

Thirdly we present the biographical convergence of DANIEL and MANUELA. And, moreover, the representation of a time that falls toward destruction. This is an erratic forward shared a flight based on the distortion and, ultimately, the dissolution of the perspective of reality.

Metaphorical space

Finally we show an space/time symbolic and narrative which draw a face not naturalistic of the film. It is like an "impressionist" space where movement and shape come on from purely visceral sensations. These sequences will provide a formal and conceptual counterpoint to supplement one's emotions of the characters and introduce the viewer into an emotional opened territory.


Ignacio Oliva, scriptwriter and director

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