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Abstract

Lukas Moodysson is both an author and filmmaker, and since his debut, his work demonstrates a strong humanistic pathos and portrays power and love. This article focuses on Moodysson's three films Fucking Åmål, Tillsammans and Lilja 4-ever. An analysis of these films shows how Moodysson questions gender structures, hegemonic masculinity and quest for power. He examines the basic conditions of society and scrutinizes symbolic systems. The critique of human exploitation becomes progressively stronger in each film, and they can be understood as a reflexive process that sheds light on the problems of masculinity. In Lilja 4-ever, Moodysson launches a fundamental attack against prostitution and trafficking. The protagonists in Moodysson's films are teenage girls on the verge of adulthood. Through these girls, Moodysson delineates a zone which is not completely exploited by patriarchal logic. Taking as a starting point what Cecilia Sjöholm has called "the Antigone complex" (in response to Freud's "Oedipus complex"), this article reveals how the film's protagonists are faced with ethical and moral choices. The unique relationship between brother and sister is emphasized in the same way as in Sophocles drama Antigone. Against an oppressive economy of desire, Moodysson poses a matriarchal principle and the utopia of a liberated domain.