Review of Dune (2021) by Mauro_Lanari — 06 Jan 2022

(Mauro Lanari).

"Mirrors and copulation are abominable, since they both multiply the numbers of men" (Borges, 1940). Paraphrasing, I would say that the sagas and, more generally, the epic and the foundation myths as hypertrophic narrative that purports to minimize the gap between the map and the territory of existence, reduplicate its abomination, therefore they are invariably, inexorably, inderogably dystopian. I have not yet managed to grasp the usefulness of this compulsion to repeat, for sure it is one of my innumerable limitations. Herbert's text re-proposes the problem and Jodorowsky, Lynch, Villeneuve were unable to solve it: could they have? The sufficiency goes to the explicit tragicity of the beginning, with the annihilation of the House of Atreides. In a few minutes we see their noble ideals, intentions, projects fade, and the scene in which Oscar Isaac, the Duke Leto, is stripped of all this, is literally laid bare and, in agony, even fails to kill his own enemy, is something that I will carry with me and inside me for a long time. Concubine, son and fate of the survivors left me indifferent.