The dominant subject of this telefilm titled "Dedalos'
look" is time.
Through an ordinary relationship between a young
film-director and a journalist, who work together on a documentary on the
great author Nikos Kazantzakis, arises the question of our link with the past
and whether it exits.
We all feel the need to make history, but
we eventualy realise that we cannot bring back or recreate the past through
facts and people only.
There are other elements as well (such as the wishes, the
ambitions, the secret thoughts, the different attitudes towards behaviors and
statements) which, though absolutely necessary for the objective evaluation of
the past, are often omitted, being forgotten as time goes by.
When the hero of the film reaches this
conclusion, he leaves the documentary on Kazantzakis unfinished seeing it like
a puzzle, some pieces of which are missing, while even those existing are not
necessarily put in the right place.
His girlfriend, the journalist, firmly
disagrees with this attitude, considering it to be a luxury in our times'
conventionalism
This disagreement puts an end to the young couple's
relationship that was built on their common effort in creating the documentary.
The creators of this film, while never
aiming at convincing the spectator, try to make as clearly as possible their
point on an existential problem, naturally seen through their own angle.
