O menino e o mundo: distopia urbana no Brasil e o direito à cidade

Abstract

Geography as a science dialogues with several other fields of study, which is an important aspect of its development. One of the areas of study that has developed within geography in recent decades in Brazil has been at the intersection with the Arts, especially cinema. By generally seeking an approximation with reality, films can illustrate important geographical problems that are complex and dispersed in space and time, in a more didactic and accessible way, facilitating the debate on the themes. Despite this, academic productions deepening these interpretations are still lacking. This work, therefore, seeks to relate urban studies within Geography starting from the film O Menino e o Mundo [Boy and the world] (2014) and the concepts of the right to the city and urban spoliation, focusing on the issues of industrialization, the formation of peripheries, relations between capital and the structure of cities and urban social movements. For this, an analysis of the landscapes present in the film as well as the narrative journey of the main character were made, thus being a theoretical and documental research of qualitative methodology. It is concluded that the film seeks to raise questions regarding these themes and summarize a journey that was common in Brazil, that is, rural-urban migration and the formation of peripheries, paving the way for a debate about Brazilian cities and the experience of its residents.