The Trojan Women by Michael Cacoyannis Essay -- Film Cinema Movies Eur

Desperate Trojan Housewives Some Reflections on The Trojan Women, A Film by Michael Cacoyannis.I am exploring most aspects of the film of Euripides The Trojan Women,directed by Michael Caccayannis, based on the poetic translation by Edith Hamiltonand starring Katherine Hepburn as the tragic hero Hecuba, faery of Troy. I would liketo explore an essentially Jungian theory of what expiry means, and whether there can beso much suffering, that it overwhelms the personality. In Jungs view, which isessentially the view held by most spiritual disciplines, it is only by dint of suffering thatwe become fully human. It is only when we are in colour with our shame, by means of ourpublic nakedness, and private anguish, that we can be in converge with our limitationsand our humanness. But as we work with our patients do we not doubt the possibility,so eloquently put by Aeschylus and misquoted by Robert Kennedy at a famedspeech upon the assassination of M nontextual matterin Luther King.RFK s speechIn our sleep, pain which cannot forget, locomote drop by drop upon the heart,until,in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdomthrough the awful grace of God.THE FILMThere is little plot in the Trojan women and almost no action. It is the day afterwardthe destruction of Troy, after ten years of siege, and the women are weeping in theashes of their done for(p) urban center and waiting by the city walls to be transported along withthe Trojan value to be handed out a slaves. They await their fate, but distillery looktowards their queen, Hecuba, for guidance and security.The women are huddled in the ashes of their now destroyed city, awaitingtransportation by the Greeks. Women and gold are the spoils of war. They all will bedished up as bo... ...vesting the characterswith an identity gives me a dimension of veracity that helps to stimulate myimagination. In the case of THE TROJAN WOMEN, pre-casting was an artisticnecessity. There was no wavering in my choice of the four actresses. I made it asmuch on the basis of their talent as for r their very special qualities as human beings,their outlook, their spirit. The spirit , and especially Katherine Hepburns, who wasthe first to in truth and the last to leave the location, not only made this film doable butradiates through performances in a manner that makes thedifficult art of acting seem as natural as breathing.Claire Odeon Hershman is a clinical psychologist in both private practice in London, andThe National wellness Service. She is a part time lecturer in the department ofpsychoanalytical Psychotherapy at Birkbeck College, London University. U.K.