Reasoning
Räsoneur (also: Raisoneur from French : Raisonneur ; English sometimes: reasoner ) is a character in the theater who observes and comments on the actions of other people. The term comes from the French neoclassical theater dramaturgy, when the intellectual was more important than the emotional .
In the narrower sense, the reasoning person is a wise talker, sometimes a kind of mouthpiece for the author, sometimes a kind of choir that comments on the action with skepticism or accompanies it in a moralizing way and often a didactic and instructive element that is imported into the presentation. The figure of the reasoning man occasionally appears as the hero's companion ( sidekick ).
In the film, the reasoning person is also found as a character in the framework of the plot, who acts both as a distanced narrator and as a witness. One example is the narrator Altamirano in the 1986 film Mission by Roland Joffé , who, apologetically and resignedly, records in a letter to the Pope the events that led to the destruction of a Brazilian Jesuit settlement in the 18th century .
Individual evidence
- ^ "Räsoneur" in the Lexicon of Film Terms , accessed on April 8, 2016