Le monde vivant

Le monde vivant is a fairytale for everyone and all age groups -but one has to comment that there is a lot more to enjoy for those of us with a preference for intellectual self-mockery and dry humorous minimalism. A young man, Nicolas, leaves his parental home on a quest into the unknown. In the woods, he meets the Brave Lion Knight, accompanied by his faithful Lion. The Lion is played by an amiable looking labrador that does however have a beautiful lion's roar. This only goes to say that Green succeeds in convincing us that we are watching a mediaeval epic of chivalry -despite the everyday clothing of the knights and the occasional use of anachronistic language and ironic references (the monster that lives in the woods `just past the Lacanian witch'). Le monde vivant has enchanted trees, child-eating monsters, beautiful damsels, a real castle and everyone is morally tied to the `word' once given. There, in the teasingly presented quest for the meaning of the `word', of the `myth', of `sound', `perception', the underlying significance of Le monde vivant can -not must -be sought.