Law, Father And Lost Children: A Study On Legal Imagination Through A Review Of Three Movies

Abstract Inspired by law and society scholarship, this paper aims to study the law-in-action, in its multiplicities and complications, rather than the law-in-books, as fixed and idealized. In analyzing A Sweet Hereafter (Egoyan, 1997), A Separation (Farhadi, 2011), and Mold (Ayd？n, 2012), I aim to demonstrate the inevitable fragility of the parallel images of the law, as an audacious institution that can comprehend life in its totality and solve all the problems that emerge, and the father as the ultimate authority who protects the child and shapes her life. Instead, this study calls the reader to imagine the father and the law as mundane and flexible