A very brief "essay" on the intrinsic connection between Janus and cinema WHO IS JANUS ? : ROMAN GOD Janus is the Roman God of all beginnings, gates, transitions, time, choices, duality, doorways, passages, and endings. A mysterious deity, his true nature is still debated to this day. Interpretations concerning the god's fundamental nature either limit it to this general function or emphasize a concrete or particular aspect of it. ETYMOLOGY The name of the god comes form Iānus , meaning in Latin "arched passage, doorway". Cicero, Ovid and Macrobius have also indicated that the name derived from the verb ire ("to go"), which made of Janus the god of motion and transitions. GOD OF MOTION Since movement and change are interconnected, he has a double nature, symbolised in his two-headed image. He also rules the progress of past to future, from one condition to another, from one vision to another, and young people's g...
