Cinema como escola de vida: a propósito das películas de ficção científica

Abstract

The language of cinema presents possibilities that allow us to evoke the human fascination for images, something we’ve inherited from photography itself, and it also provides a multiple, collective and individual experience when we think about the environment where it occurs, be it a movie theater or the screen of a smartphone. These qualities ignite in us the identification-projection, a process through which we project our own selves on the characters who, in their turn, come alive through us. This work reflects on how cinema, through film, promotes learning that goes beyond the action of making school content and scientific concepts didactic, when we amplify the conceptual expression of Edgar Morin of cinema as a school for life. Such a reflection is carried out through bibliographical research starting from Edgar Morin’s studies on cinema and the Brazilian post-graduate scientific production on the topic, especially as it concerns science fiction in the teaching of school science. Eventually, discussing the movie Contagion (2011), we endeavor to understand, through reflections which seek to provide answers to the covid-19 sanitary crisis, what the cinema school of life can teach us through the narrative of a pandemic scenario which projects realities based on the imagery of a future that has already arrived.