英文摘要
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〞Seven Days in Heaven〞 is a popular cultural movie adapted from Liu, Zi-Jie's prose of the same name. As soon as the movie was released, it gained big popularity among Taiwanese. This essay was conducted to examine how the movie has aroused the masses' collective nostalgia memories and gathered the cohesion to local culture. This study was come out under the Existentialism Theory and take Albert Camus's book 〞The Myth of Sisyphus〞 as the theory reference to explain the 〞absurdity〞 in both the prose and the film with a philosophical point of view. Firstly, the findings indicated that Liu used 〞brackets〞 and 〞question marks〞 to emphasize her insightful thoughts and inquiries in the prose. Furthermore, Liu put exaggerated and ironic elements into the movie to render the absurdity of the funeral by the way of composing dramatic characters as well as collage techniques. Therefore, this research concluded that based on Camus's three consequences of absurdity: revolt, freedom and passion, Liu's inquiries about the meaning of rituals are kind of conquest of consciousness. She converted her father's funeral ceremony into a mocking family festival which represented her freedom to master the absurdity. Lastly, 〞Seven Days in Heaven〞 was her passion to creations, as well as to her beloved father.
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