Conflito, aventura e misticismo que Amazônia são narradas em filme de ficção

Abstract

The present work aims to analyze how the Brazilian Amazon (BA) is represented in fiction films. Faced with a series of titles aimed at the most diverse audiences, we chose Jonathas’ Forest, launched in 2013, a movie aimed at the children and adolescents audience that narrates the romance between Jonathas, a simple boy native to the Amazon and Milly, a foreign (Ukrainian) girl who visits Manaus in search of leisure and adventure. For analysis of the statements, we take the films as pedagogical devices that circulate representations that are capable of producing social effects that translate into a regime of truth that teach us ways to see and say the Amazon, as well as the people that live on it. We seek in Michel the concepts of discourse, power, enunciation, dispersion and subjectivation to sustain our analysis. We could observe, from the object that we have chosen for this study, that in general the Amazon is represented as an inhospitable and far place. To the local inhabitants is a place of imprisonment and for the foreigners, it is seen as a promise of mysticism, beauty and adventure The plot of the film shows the space that is or represented by mysticism (present in female elements such as the forest and Jonatha’s mother) or by its strength and power to punish those that venture there.