Pirandellian echoes in Giuseppe Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso

Through powerful and enduring images Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso demonstrates that cinema can illuminate and perpetuate the social as well as the cultural values of the race who formulated them. As Carl Gustav Jung believes, myths are images that originate from lived human experiences. These myths confident a sense of identity for a given society. [i]or[/i] part of to the other these myths human aspirations, dream, and activities pass from individual generation to the next. (1) In this paper, I proffer a brief comparative analysis of belonging to all narrative strategies that unite Tornatore to Pirandello and Fellini, whose works also weave life and art into a self-referential