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Reinterpreting the Apparitions of Fatima in Mikhail Lidin’s Documentary The Greatest Miracle of the Twentieth Century or a Mass Deception? The Prophecies of Our Lady of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun
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This article examines the ways in which the apparitions of Fatima are represented in the Russian documentary film The Greatest Miracle of the Twentieth Century or a Mass Deception? The Prophecies of Our Lady of Fatima and the Miracle of the Sun by Mikhail Lidin. The research material consists of the original transcription of the film, which is analysed in comparison with The Message of Fatima and The Memoirs of Sister Lucia. This study aims to identify the functions of the linguistic, stylistic, and pragmatic devices employed in the reinterpretation of the apparitions of Fatima, and to determine their role in constructing a message addressed simultaneously to child and adult audiences. The analysis demonstrates that Lidin selectively reinterprets the source material, primarily emphasising themes of suffering, violence, catastrophe, and supernatural phenomena, whilst reducing the presence of religious and spiritual content. The film employs numerous linguistic devices, as well as pragmatic and narrative strategies, including colloquialisms, irony, comparisons, references to popular culture, the dialogisation of discourse, the rationalisation of the apparitions, and the psychologisation of Sister Lucia, all of which contribute to a sceptical interpretation of the apparitions of Fatima. The study also confirms the multi-addressed nature of the narrative and its place within contemporary forms of multimodal online communication..
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Fatima apparitions, film narrative, persuasive strategies, online communication, multimodal discourseDetails
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