Amores Perros: arquitetônica em espelho estilhaçado

Abstract

This work is characterized as a dialogical analysis of the architectonics of the movie Amores Perros (Iñarritu, Mexico, 2000). It takes Bakhtin s dialogical theory as it basis, more specifically the concepts of architectonics and authorship (which implies those of chronotope and exotopy, as well as some proposals of authors from Film Theory, especially Robert Stam. Having a practical character, it aims to examine in which way the movie is architectonically organized for senses creation based on the articulation of different chronotopical perspectives. We discuss how the cinematographic work in analysis works with time, as well as the way this reveals the specificity of the authorial project, in order to show in which aspects this work of Iñárritu is emblematic regarding the possibility of creating simultaneity amid a chronological scenes succession. The work resorts to the concept of spheres-worlds, which refers to the ambience in which live the characters, spheres that join in terms of what we call a shattered mirror . As for the adopted proceedings, we describe the characters and their relationships and existences, considering more carefully three insertions of the same accident, vital for the narrative, and we evaluate the points of view of key characters regarding the accident, aiming at revealing the dynamics of architectonics concerning the enunciatively project of the author and the production of senses in the studied film narrative