Cinema, educação e morte: quando a infância encontra a guerra

Abstract

The enchanted world of film invites us to enter it in subtle ways and through image, leads us to question what is around us and also to rethink our role as social individuals. Working with Walter Benjamin, this work rightly questioned the cinematic technical apparatus, investigating their educational potential and inquiring the place occupied by children, by death and by war in this films. Positioning the conflicts of World War II and European totalitarian regimes such as historical contexts, we analyze here the films "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006), "The Tin Drum" (1979) and "Victims of the Storm" (1946), to understand the allegories present in the deaths of children's characters of these films, as well as positioned and question the image as an important channel of dialogue with the contemporary student. Through the work of Walter Benjamin, Marcel Martin, Henry Giroux, Neil Postman, Solange Jobim and Souza, Sandra Jovchelovitch and Jorge Larrosa, we discuss the concepts of childhood, representation, death, allegory and educator cinema. In appropriating own technical field on film, use of the process of découpage main methodological way, since it allowed us to study the structure of the film and then collect our data. At the end of our analysis we concluded, as Walter Benjamin argued, death and destruction are not the end, but open possibilities of resumption. In the allegory of these deaths is restlessness to the adult viewer, who can reflect on their relationship with the children and about their own daily wars.