The movie Nome Próprio, by Murilo Salles: post-modernity and the confluence between the internet, literature and cinema

Abstract

The confluences between cinema and literature have increasingly awakened the hybridization of these two art forms which united, manage to enhance their meanings and interpretations. This movie is an adaptation inspired by the novel Máquina de Pinbal by Clarah Averbuck, published in 2002. This romance was born from the reflections from the blog of the same author and culminated finally in the cinema with Nome Próprio (2007). Under the direction of Murilo Salles, it is an example that the cinema has been approaching more and more of the universe of the writing and vice versa. The feature film features the character Camila, blogger, subversive and existentialist, the young woman faces various anguish and psychological conflicts mixed with her compulsive need for writing and reading. Stubborn for writing a book and, therefore, build her life, the protagonist is the representation of the writer who hopes that his literature transforms his own history. In the book, Camila is an alter ego of the author herself and features enhanced in the adaptation to the cinema. This article aims to list the hybrid elements present in the works, their intersections, distances and analyze the way in which the written text was reinvented in the filmic construction, having as its main part, Camila. To do so, we will consult the bibliography that supports Bauman's theory of postmodern condition, Sartre's existentialism, and the connections between cinema and literature present in the adaptation beyond the considerations arising from the cybernetic era.