O ódio e a violência na literatura e no cinema

Abstract

The present paper addresses modes of hatred and violence appearance in the contemporary experience by means ofeffects achieved by literary and cinematographic works, namely: two short stories by Rubem Fonseca –Passeio Noturno parte I(1973/2004) andPasseio noturno parte II-(1973/2004) –and two movies -Relatos Selvagens(2014), by Damián Szifron and Inglorious Basterds(2009). The discussion unfolds elements presented in the context of the exhibition and debate on movies within the framework of the Cine Freud, Cultura e Arte project, which assigns to Psychoanalysis the function of grounding the proposed debate. Taking as starting point the effects given by such works, we observed that, in what regards to the short stories and to the movie Relatos Selvagens (2014), to every criminal who acts according to their own laws, another order is announced, which, under the disguise of order and norm, conceals their violent faces. Behind the figure of the criminal, there is a whole world that reveals itself in its arbitrariness and in its power to usurp what individuals have as their fundamental mark: their beings as subjects. While in Tarantino’s production, it is presented a violent order (such as slavery and antisemitism) and the response given to this order by subjects who refuse to remain objects of hatred. In the time subversion operated by Tarantino,we hear a current convocation, which reminds us of the possibility of rewriting history and of questioning the places where the violenceis committed.