Uma animação a contrapelo : o discurso histórico em face da violência em “Uma História de Amor e Fúria” (2013) de Luiz Bolognesi

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the historical discourse included in the traditional animated feature film “A Story of Love and Fury” (2013), scripted and directed by filmmaker Luiz Bolognesi. In the work, the director proposes to revisit the national past by questioning the milestones consolidated by traditional historiography and disseminated in the collective memory. To do this, assume the perspective of those defeated in historical processes from the perspective of an immortal warrior, an eyewitness to the events, who takes on the role of narrator. In this way, the film works as an agent of transubstantiation of collective memory, highlighting memory conflicts by representing silenced agents. Furthermore, film production questions the notion of cordiality, that is, a positive view of national identity, by exposing violence as something that persists in history. On the one hand, this violence is used as a tool to maintain established power, but, on the other hand, it can also be seen as a form of emancipation from relations of domination. Given this, social relations are portrayed in a conflicting manner. The narrative constructed by Bolognesi alludes that only with knowledge of the past can one understand the present and change the future, this aspect is exposed in the work by the projection of a dystopian future at the end of the 21st century. From this, we can list a cinematographic work as a document/monument through which the demystification of the past becomes possible, through audio-image language the work in question intends to be an instrument of awareness proposing the construction of another memory about the facts and historical agents represented.