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The Experience Of Drugs: Utopian Imagination And Virtual Community In The Rose Seller, Lizardo Herrera
The Experience Of Drugs: Utopian Imagination And Virtual Community In The Rose Seller, Lizardo Herrera
Modern Languages
This article explores the hallucinations and the utopian desire in The Rose Seller (1998), a movie by the Colombian director Víctor Gaviria. On the one hand, the film shows the death of the street children of Medellín-Colombia and that the surrounding world of drugs is extremely violent; thus the audience can watch how these children live in very precarious conditions and how they are forced to face death on a daily basis. On the other hand, drugs lead these children to an imaginary space where they experience their affective world intensely. I suggest that this imaginary space constitute their utopian …