The Indomitable Country Girl in Michael David Apted's Film Nell

YAO Affoué Hélène

Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères – Numéro 8 (2015) Page(s) 88 - 103 ISSN 2076-6130

. As a m eans of exchange and self-accomplishment, language can also be an instrument of globalization and domination. Th is aspect of language is highlighted in Michael David Apted’s film Nell. Nell, the eponymous protagonist, is a subject of conflict between two ideologies based on her inability to gain a conventional language. Concealed in the rafter of a cabin in the backwoods of North Carolina forest after her mother’s death, Nell is thought to be a wild child who has not learn t about social skills a s she speaks unintelligible language. She, therefore, becomes an attraction, a curiosity for her manners. Jerome Lovell, the town doctor, decides to help her remain in her mother’s cottage, while Paula Olsen and her boss, Alexander Paley, plan to use her as a laboratory study case. Their divergent views about the girl’s future life s 89

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YAO Affoué Hélène. « The Indomitable Country Girl in Michael David Apted's Film Nell ». Revue Ivoirienne de Langues Étrangères, Numéro 8, 2015, p. 88. ISSN 2076-6130.