The rural seen from two viewpoints in the movie I travel because I need it, I return because I love you

Abstract

This analysis focuses on rural representations of the Brazilian northeastern backwoods in the movie “I travel because I need it, I return because I love you”, directed by Karim Aïnouz and Marcelo Gomes and released in 2009. We assume that a cinematographic work, even if resulting from the subjective vision of a cinematographic narrator, when we understood as a society cultural product, also carries in its discourse representations of that society and its historical time. In this article, the examination of these representations will be performed through the analysis of the significant elements of cinematographic language (framing, lighting, camera movements, etc.) used in the narrative construction, since we believe that it is from the choice of every element of language that a movie can reveal to its viewers the aesthetic and ideological representations of a given social time.