Elements of post modernism in "The Icicle Thief".

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PHILOSOPHY 252: PHILOSOPHY OF CULTURE

Carla Le Riche Malan

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"The Icicle Thief" pokes fun at both the hyper-pathos of the neo-realists and the indifferent extravagance of modern society, by the use of several elements of postmodernism. Nichetti has created a neo-neo-realist film, in which postmodernism challenges the boundaries between genres, art forms and the mass media, in many cases by mixing these genres. The postmodern nature of the film supports the dispensation of elements of naturalism, seriousness, articulated symbolism, logic and homogeneity in montage, and sentimentalism to arrive at apparently depth-free assemblages of images that delineate the disjunctions of the world it represents. The distinction between reality and fiction (simulation) is undermined, or satirized by the use of irony as a primary mode of expression. However, abuse, installation and subversion of conventions usually negotiates contradictions as can be seen in "The Icicle Thief".

Postmodernism opposes central control, portrayed by Maurizio Nichetti's lack of control of his own movie and environment, when he is invited by a local network to introduce his newest release, called "The Icicle Thief", in which he plays a director whose name is also Maurizio Nichetti. The director, (apparently unacquainted with