Puzzle-films e narrativas não-lineares no cinema fantástico: um estudo de caso de Abre los Ojos e Yella

Abstract

Puzzle-films are films that present narratives with non-linear structures. Their context involves the presentation of cues that are used to arrive at a final conclusion. The presence of these structures in the fantastic genre results in an interesting narrative structure, with similarities and differences. Fantastic can subvert the puzzle conclusive structure, like a puzzle assembled, by the hesitation aspect that is inherent in the fantastic genre, giving this way representation of an "authorized deviation". For a case study we chose two films: Abre los Ojos (Abre los Ojos, Spain, Alejandro Amenábar, 1997, 117 min.) and Yella (Yella, Germany, Christian Petzold, 2007, 89 min.). It is possible so chain together from an analysis of how the puzzle and the fantastic relate in film narratives and studied dichotomies occur on both occasions. Then we can draw some important goals for the study. The puzzle-films relate to the fantastic genre exclusively or relational way? The fantastic genre serves as subversive effect of the final order of the puzzle solved through hesitation features, transgression, deviation and strangeness? This deviation can be an analysis engine of possible reflections of the contemporary societal issues? These two films through their narratives puzzle, are able to be used as an example to answer these questions? With these questions then we depart to the attempt to answer them with a methodology and theoretical foundation already well established. We will approach to the question of gender through a semantic perspective / pragmatic syntax. The questions of the fantastic and the puzzle we will use the research done in the literary and cinematic scope. And in discussing the question of transgression, we will look at the sociology of deviance theories to understand where are located the representations of outsiders.