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- Title: Desiring Oedipus in Stephen Frear's the Grifters.
- Author : Journal of Religion and Film
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 183 KB
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[1] Stephen Frears's film, The Grifters, presents an intriguing study in mimetic desire and mimetic crisis. Petty conman, Roy Dillan, becomes the object of desire in a perverse love triangle including his mother, Lily Dillan, a numbers-runner for the mob and his girlfriend, Myra Langtree, a long-con 'roper'. The escalation of rivalry between Lily and Myra culminates in a confrontation between the two women during which Myra is killed. The dynamic between the two women well illustrates the various stages of Rene Girard's schemata of mimetic desire. Passing from admiration to envy, the metaphysical desire ignited in Myra through her encounter with Lily transforms into one of mimetic desire, wherein Lily becomes the model for Myra's own desires. As mimetic desire becomes mimetic rivalry, possessiveness over the object of desire, Roy, increases, as does the valuation of Roy by both women. While Myra's death can be interpreted as the inevitable consequence of unbridled mimetic rivalry, her depiction and death take on greater significance when interpreted according to the generative-mimetic-scapegoating-mechanism (GMSM). Within this context, Myra becomes a hapless 'mark' herself, sacrificed in order to preserve the sanctity of the borderline incestuous relationship between Lily and Roy. Thus, The Grifters, portrays an intricate web of desires and sacrificial functions, which extend beyond the Freudian Oedipal conception of desire that, at first glance, appears to constitute the film's main thematic. Girard and Oedipus
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