Infância e pobreza: as crianças ao cuidado do cinema

Abstract

Prejudice against poverty, and especially child poverty, built on heavy class stereotypes, carries a series of associated negative images and representations. Too often associated with wandering and delinquency, poor childhood is seen as a threat to society, and it is an uncomfortable object to look at because it gives visibility to a disturbing side of our social reality. This paper proposes that we focus on the way in which childhood in an exception state was represented by cinema. From Luis Buñuel's “Os Esquecidos” and François Truffaut's “Os Incompreendidos”, we will try to understand how child poverty is given to us, while questioning the role of cinema in the exercise of resistance against the phenomenon of invisibility of poverty, as well as the range and limits of our reaction to the images we project