Romance policial: Memory´s Duty and Film Genre about the Chilean dictatorship
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9651.i23p294-322Keywords:
Dictatorship, Orestes, Film genres, Central conflictAbstract
This article aims to study the memory of Chilean dictatorship in Brazilian Chilean film co-production Romance policial (2015), by filmmaker Jorge Durán. My hypothesis is that this fiction film, although with no explicit allusions to the dictatorship, can be interpreted as a re-reading of the myth of Orestes, where a parricide investigation functions as a metaphor for the search for justice faced to the crimes perpetrated by the Pinochet regime. To do so, Durán uses thriller’s codes in a film that seeks to bring Memory´'s Duty moral imperative to a mass audience. I will analyze what the central conflict´'s narrative principle, as well as the conventions of the film´'s limitations mean for a profound reflection on the state of terrorism and its consequences in contemporary Brazilian and Chilean societies.
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