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“Zorba the Greek – a philophical ideal of humanity”When we first watch the movie about this eccentric Greek, named Zorba,we are encourage to think about the ideal of liberty, of how it is needed and soughtby all men. Even being different in each character this liberty is unified by the anti-moralism and the emocional liberty that involves a free and easy plot.Zorba is an hedonist man, or in other words, he does not care aboutwhat the other persons will think of him, he just do in his own way what he likesand wants to do. Like in a scene when Basil gives to him some money to buy thenecessary material for work in the idle mine, but Zorba ends with a gorgeouswoman wasting the money with presents.The women, who are for him sublime creatures, are also a manner toreach happiness and to surpass time, like if everyone became younger whenrealize that are in love.Differently from Zorba, but still his best friend, Basil is a British writer whofights with his internal liberty of his own imagination and a moralist society. He feelsfree only when he’s writing, nevertheless he ends up learning with the lifestyle of Zorba, releasing himself to live like in the poetry world from his books. Another character who, by the way, has no name and it is called “the widow” through all themovie, also helps our writer, but in a different way.“The widow” is a symbol of liberty against the traditional vows. She fightsin a hypocrite society to be an independent woman, but that search impels peopleto think that she has a lover, wich is not allowed for a widow. Meanwhile, the men judge her just because they find themselves very much attracted to her beauty andyouth and that is why they feel jealousy of her independence. When she and Basilmeet there is a correspondence of desire to be free. They fall in love for each other but this passion will decree her death.This union symbolizes that the freedom that they have lived can surpasstime an even death. It is almost an ideal to be fought for. So, we can say that timeis also a sub theme witch establish with more vehemence the real theme of thismovie: the liberty.