" no one, no 'person', says it: its source, its voice, is not the true place of the writing, which is reading."
Does So This Is subvert Barthes' statement or reinforce it?
I was shocked while watching So This Is by how often I felt like it was a narrated film. The voice in my head, though obviously my own, felt distinctly different. Doesn't the act of reading resurrect the author to a certain extent? Snow's voice--or my rendition of his voice--was so present in the film despite being silent. So This Is seemed to exhibit the opposite of Barthes' assertion--Snow hijacked my own voice and inner dialogue. By reading I was rendered useless, hypnotized.