Memento mori o el viaje simbólico hacia la muerte: modelos estético-literarios en Truman de Cesc Gay

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to analyze the aesthetic and literary patterns of the
Spanish film Truman (2015), directed by Cesc Gay and recently awarded with the best
original screenplay in the 30th Goya Ceremony Awards. According to a comparative
methodology, which combines the literary references and underlying narrative patters with
the cinematographic material, this study proposes to offer a higher perspective about literary
topics: memento mori, journey and movement, with the aim of delving into the relationship
between cinema and literature in the light of cultural taboo which persist on our
contemporary society. In this sense, the study of the film implies the approach to literary
words (Divina comedia, by Dante or La muerte de Ivan Ilich, by Tolstoi), as well as the tie
with literary periods with their cultural implications (from the Medieval Age to the
contemporary period).