Freud in his 1919 essay, The ‘Uncanny’, offers us an explanation of ‘uncanny’. According to him, ‘uncanny’ is the experience of dread which returns to what is already known and familiar. In other words, he investigates how the familiar returns as a lingering, uncertain dread. For the purpose of this paper, I will look at the film, The Cure (1997) to explore the concept of Freud’s ‘uncanny’. I intend to look at how the film deploys the concept of ‘uncanny’ in a two-pronged approach: how the narrative sets up the trope of ‘uncanny’ and how the film addresses the ‘uncanny’ cinematically to evoke an affective experience for the audience.
Kyoshi Kurosawa’s The Cure narrates a story of a detective trying to solve a series of murders which seems
Kyoshi Kurosawa’s The Cure narrates a story of a detective trying to solve a series of murders which seems