Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Direito, literatura e cinema: um ensaio sobre filmes distópicos
2012; UNIVERSIDADE DO VALE DO RIO DOS SINOS; Volume: 4; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.4013/rechtd.2012.41.04
ISSN2175-2168
AutoresAndityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos,
Tópico(s)Law in Society and Culture
ResumoBased on five paradigmatic novels – and their respective film adaptations – presenting dystopic future societies where law presents itself as a mere instrument of control and social planning, without any ethical-humanist foundation, the present paper intends to discuss the relations between power, law, ideology and control of consciences. In the first section, of historical-theoretical character, the juridical-philosophical meanings of the words “utopia” and “dystopia” in literature and philosophy are analyzed. The second section contains the synopses and data of the books and their respective dystopian movies, 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451, A clockwork orange and A scanner darkly.These are used in the third section, that has a critical nature, in order to support and illustrate the analysis of present society and its juridical alienating project. The article concludes with a reflection on the need to humanize juridical orders. Key words: utopia, dystopia, literature, cinema and law, contemporaneity, critique.
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