The Name of the Rose
The movie The name of the rose, based on the homonymous novel by Umberto Eco published in 1980, was released in 1986 and is received with great curiosity by the public.
However, the movie of Jean Jaques Annaud is a simplified interpretation compared to the novel, which offers multiple levels of reading.
The name of the rose is clearly inspired by the Sir Conan Doyle book`s Sherlock Holmes. Here, Guglielmo da Baskerville, a Franciscan friar, and Adso of Melk, Benedictine novice, medieval Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, find themselves investigating mysterious deaths in the Benedictine abbey where they came after a long journey.
Amazing is the character of the young Adso, hungry to know, to discover the world and the pitfalls of life. It is Adso who discovers the love, the flattery of lust. He is attracted by a poor and marginalised young woman whose name she does not even know and who will be condemned for witchcraft.
On the other hand we have Guglielmo da Baskerville, more rational than intuitive. Faithfully followed by Adso, he discovers the existence of a wonderful library, kept hidden from everyone, containing an invaluable treasure of books, an expression of free thought and therefore a vehicle of knowledge. But the most dangerous volume is the second book of Aristotle's Poetics, in which the Greek philosopher dwells on the genre of comedy and on laughter.
