THE BODY IN CINEMA: CHARGING OF ESTABLISHED POWER AND RECREATION OF NEW SENSES

Abstract

This study focuses on the imagery of violence from the film Ma vie en Rose. We seek to understand the meanings of violence that appear there - specifically, the violent imposition of social roles. Ludovic, character in the movie, is ambiguous, he believes he is a boy-girl. With his imagination, he exorcise the powers that be in his own body and embarks on creating other opportunities for its existence dressing like a princess, making up and dancing like his novel's heroine. Your tastes and attitudes makes him as someone “out of place” seen by his family, neighborhood and school, therefore, he must change his behavior. The film urges the viewer to think that it is through imagination that we identify and assume different roles and that although our lives are based on devices that produce exemplary behavior patterns conveyed by cinema and television, there are also possibilities of recreating these senses and escape from all control and domain, once the existing modes of sociality are not the only and neither definitive.