Kaos, part 3

The makers of Kaos prefigure the scene on the dune of the Pumice Island. It seems to emerge gradually from the surrounding story in increasing focus. First, arriving at the station (whose name is illegible), Pirandello sees boys holding out their arms before jumping and rolling down a small pile of sand; later a brief flash – 10 seconds –

occurs of his mother as a child holding out her arms outstretched and gazing ahead with a kind of elation before the story cuts back to wherever it was; then, in the end, when the scene comes towards the end of the story – the girl opens out her arms, gazes at the sea and leaps – it is, as it were, recalled by our minds. There is a kind of “aha”: so this is what has been trying to boil up to the surface. The director has set it up in our mind. A trick, but a good one.