Tiberio TriPPn

“In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time,” says Mircea Eliade, a 20 th century religious historian and philosopher. Think of profane time as a worn out world, a period in which chaos has corrupted the foundation of a given space. Rituals are meant to reenact primordial deeds performed by gods during creation, bringing about a sacred space and time; the world is rediscovered, beginning anew. Moonrise Kingdom is more than a love adventure between two 12 year-old kids. Beneath what appears to be a surface of Anderson-verse silliness is a rich mythological subtext rooted in primordial ritualism that defines both the individual and the society. Beyond two kids in love, Moonrise is about a fractured community going through a rebirth. Bob Balaban’s Narrator wouldn’t go through all the trouble to tell u...