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ing this communication. These obstacles have dif-
ferent origins and natures; they are social, psycho-
logical, religious, historical, ideological or national.
Different languages are also an obstacle, but not the
most important...
Aman is lost because he is alone.
He tries to save himself, looking for a person to
lean on. But the second person is lost as well, and
because of that, she cannot help him. She is lost in
social de
fi
nitions and economical limitations.
Is there any possibility for these two human beings
to be saved?
Is there any possibility to run away, to avoid their
fate? Their destiny?
In the
fi
lm, Fate (Moira in ancient Greek) is not
an ancient goddess, but a social determinism, cruel
like the economy.
In ancient Greece, Fate (Moira) would start acting
because of an Abuse (Hybris) of the moral order,
of the divine order. Moira acted as a restorer of the
moral situation, of the moral order which had been
destroyed by someone’s acts. And you could do
nothing to avoid the vengeance, which occurred in
the life of the Abuser. Indeed, it was a punishment
for something you may not even had done person-
ally, but done by one of your ancestors. You were
paying for somebody else’s sins! And this could
not be changed or avoided.
Andreas Pantzis directs his cast
Still from the movie
Silvia Petkova (Dita)
