About the Conditions of Possibility of the Philosophical Analysis of Films: A Kierkegaardian, Girardian, and Deleuzian Reading of In the Mood for Love

Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia 69 (3-4):451-470 (2013)
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Resumo A problemática na relação entre Filosofia e Cinema dá origem a duas questões: a primeira, sobre as condições que os filmes têm de satisfazer a fim de poderem ser devidamente tratados por uma compreensão filosófica; a segunda, sobre os requisitos, que os discursos sobre os filmes têm de satisfazer, em ordem a serem legitimamente considerados como filosóficos. Respondendo à primeira pergunta, através de uma análise ao debate entre Paisley Livingston e Aaron Smuts, acerca da “Filosofia do Cinema”, será afirmado que, embora os filmes em si mesmos não façam filosofia, é possível fazer filosofia a partir deles, desde que estes expressem ideias estéticas. Respondendo à segunda questão, através da leitura crítica de Days of Being Wild, In the Mood of Love e 2046 de Wong Kar-wai, com referência aos conceitos de Kierkegaard, Girard e Deleuze, será argumentado que uma análise filosófica implica a renovação de conceitos filosóficos centrais e o alargamento da compreensão da natureza das imagens cinematográficas. Palavras-chave : Deleuze, emoção-imagem, filosofia do cinema, Kierkegaard, repetição, Wong Kar-waiThe problem of the relationships between Philosophy and Films raises two questions: first, the conditions that films have to fulfill in order to be rightly concerned by a philosophical understanding; second the requirements that discourses about films have to fulfill in order to be truly considered as philosophical ones. Answering to the first question through a survey of the debate between Paisley Livingston and Aaron Smuts about “Film-Philosophy”, I will affirm that, though films in themselves are not doing philosophy, it is possible to do philosophy out of them provided they express aesthetical ideas. Answering to the second question through a critical reading of Wong Kar-wai’s Days of Being Wild, In the Mood for Love, and 2046 referring to the concepts of Kierkegaard, Girard and Deleuze, I will argue that a philosophical analysis implies to renew core philosophical concepts and to extend our understanding of the nature of cinematographic images. Keywords : Deleuze, film-philosophy, image-emotion, Kierkegaard, repetition, Wong Kar-wai

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