Bicho de Sete Cabeças (2001) um olhar sobre a loucura

Abstract

In this article, from the point of view of New Cultural History, we will understand the propositions of the national film Bicho de Sete Cabeças, directed by Laís Bodanzky (2001), suggesting here a debate with the film's ideologies, based on a methodology devised by Valim (2012), based on the analysis of the film's production process, its distribution, reception and uses. This film tells the story of Neto, a teenager who was admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family for smoking marijuana and in this place he knows the horrors for which the inmates are. This narrative is based on the autobiography Canto dos Malditos (1990) by Austragésilo Carrano, who went through traumatic experiences in psychiatric hospitals in Brazil in the 1970s and later became an important figure in the anti-asylum movement from the 1990s to the 2000s. that the film calls us to the questions that Michel Foucault in História da Loucura (1961) points out to us about the issues of hospitalization as part of a moral and not of the Medical saber. In view of this, the objective was to analyze the relationship of this filmic object with the memory of the Psychiatric Reform (2001) in Brazil and, finally, the film's perception of madness. It was analyzed that the film became a landmark in the national memory of the psychiatric reform in Brazil in the same year of its release, it is given to it, therefore, the role of enabling its approval.