Remey Fisher Ghost

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The term ‘Ghost’ is defined in the dictionary as ‘the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.’ (Dictionary, 2016) And in Christian Petzold’s Gespenster (Ghosts, 2005), I believe this definition fits well and true to the title and storyline of the film; achieved mainly through aspects of the narrative and stylistic devices. A Ghostly Archaeology (Christian Petzold, 2013) allows the reader to make their own decisions on what Jaimey Fisher means by the term ghost and also the way in which ghosts are presented in the film. ‘The film opens with French Pierre driving to Berlin to retrieve his wife Françoise from some kind of medical, probably psychiatric, facility. Music plays on his car audio system, with Bach’s cantata Streams of Salted Tears (Bäche von gesalznen Zähren) immediately lending the film an …show more content…

The story looks at a mother’s unwillingness to stop mourning for her dead child who appears as a ghost to her and tells her he is unable to sleep in his coffin until she stops mourning him. ‘On one side, the tale seems an admonition about excessively mourning (private or personal) loss. On the other side, it also depicts a necessary, perhaps also desired, separation from the parents’ (Christian Petzold, 2013) The Grimms’ story plays an overlap in Francois illness, and her ability to not let go of her lost child. It suggests that Nina herself is a ghost, unable to sleep until Francois is able to stop mourning the loss of her child. It takes a contemporary twist on the Grimm brother’s fairy-tale story but continues to add to the eerie ghostliness of

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