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Memórias De Infância No Filme a Era Do Rádio Do Cineasta Woody Allen IV Congreso Chileno de Antropología. Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile A. G, Santiago de Chile, 2001. Memórias de Infância no filme A Era do Rádio do cineasta Woody Allen. Edilson Baltazar Barreira Júnior. Cita: Edilson Baltazar Barreira Júnior. (2001). Memórias de Infância no filme A Era do Rádio do cineasta Woody Allen. IV Congreso Chileno de Antropología. Colegio de Antropólogos de Chile A. G, Santiago de Chile. Dirección estable: https://www.aacademica.org/iv.congreso.chileno.de.antropologia/85 Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso abierto. Acta Académica fue creado para facilitar a investigadores de todo el mundo el compartir su producción académica. Para crear un perfil gratuitamente o acceder a otros trabajos visite: https://www.aacademica.org. EMORIA OLECTIVA COORDINADORAS: MARÍA ELENA ACUÑA - LORETO REBOLLEDO Memórias de Infancia no filme A Era do Rádio do cineasta Woody Allen Edilson Baltazar Barreira Júnior iョエイッ、オセゥゥッ@ Georges Perec, escritor frances-judeu, nascido em 1935, que perdeu o pai na Segunda Guerra Mundial Este trabalho monográfico visa elaborar urna análise lutando nos campos de batalha e a mae marta nas do filme A Era do Rádio (Radio Days) escrito e dirigido camaras de gás dos nazistas, nao tem urna visao tao pelo cineasta americano Woody Allen em 1987 a partir romantica de sua infancia como a apresentada por Allen. de elementos que constituem a sua memória de Ele diz: infancia, bem como utilizando pontes comparativas com "Nao tenho recordagoes da infancia: eu fazia essa outros filmes dirigidos por ele, além de tragar um para­ afirmagao com seguranga, quase com urna espécie de lelo com as memórias do escritor francés Georges Perec desafio. Nao precisavam me interrogar sobre essa descritas na obra W ou a Memória da Infancia. questao. Ela nao estava inscrita no meu programa. Estava O filme apresenta a centralidade que o rádio teve na dispensado dela: urna outra história, a Grande, a História vida de um garoto e de sua família. A época retratada é com H maiúsculo, havia respondido em meu lugar: a a década de 40, mais especificamente o período da guerra e os campos de concentragao (... ).Mas a infancia Segunda Guerra Mundial. A obra é autobiográfica na nao é nostalgia, nem terror, nem paraíso perdido, nem medida em que Allen apresenta o garata Joe (Seth tosa.o de Ouro, mas talvez horizonte, ponto de partida, Green) como senda o seu alter ego. coordenadas a partir das quais os eixos de minha vida Joe mora com seus pais e diversos parentes numa podem encontrar sentido" (Perec, 1995, p. 13) mesma casa num bairro pobre a beira-mar e o rádio Este ensaio seguirá pelo caminho da análise social e tem um papel de fundamental importancia na vida de utilizarei como elemento teórico de diálogo a obra pós• todos, urna vez que possibilita o entretenimento através tuma Memória Coletiva de Maurice Halbwachs, cuja tese de diversos programas de esparte, humor, novelas e central é mostrar que há urna impossibilidade de infantil . evocagao das lembrangas se nao tomarmos os quadros Woody Allen nao atuou neste filme como atar, mas apa­ sociais como pontos de referencia na tarefa da rece como narrador em voz off. Suas primeiras palavras reconstrugao da memória. Este trecho transcrito abaixo sao reveladoras do seu propósito em levar para as te­ revela muito bem esta idéia: las as suas memórias de crianga: "Consideremos agora a memória individual. Ela nao está " Agora tudo acabou. Exceto em minhas recordagoes. inteiramente isolada e fechada. Um homeri1, para evo­ O cenário é Rockaway e a época é minha infancia( ... ) car seu próprio passado, tem freqüentemente perdoe-me se romantizo. A vizinhanga onde cresci nem necessidade de fazer apelo as lembrangas dos outros. sempre era tao turbulenta e chuvosa, masé assim que Ele se reporta a pontos de referencia que existem fora me lembro dela. Naquela época o rádio estava sempre dele, e que sao fixados pela sociedade. Mais ainda, o ligado". (citado do roteiro) funcionamento da memória individual nao é possível 588 Tomo I Actas del 4º Congreso Chileno de Antropología Simposio Memoria Colectiva sem esses instrumentos que sao as palavras e as idéias, Halbwachs (1990, p. 38, 39) nao esquece em seu livro que o indivíduo nao inventou e que emprestou de seu de abordar acerca das lembran9as da infancia. Para meio 11 .(Halbwachs, 1990, p. 54) ele 11 se nao nos recordamos de nossa primeira infancia, Perec, assim como afirma Halbwachs irá recorrer a é, com efeito, porque nossas impressoes nao se podem outros parentes para evocar as suas memórias de relacionar com esteio nenhum, enquanto nao somos infancia. Quanto as razoes que o levaram a escrever ainda um ente social". E continua, 11 admitamos que a as suas poucas lembran9as de infancia, ele diz que é crian9a se lembre: é no quadro da família que a imagem urna forma de afirma9ao de sua vida: se situa, porque desde o início ela estava ali inserida e 11 11 ( ••• ) o escandalo do silencio deles e do meu silencio: dela jamais saiu • Assim sendo, nao é de estranhar o nao escrevo para dizer que nao direi nada, nao escrevo valor que Allen concede em seu filme as lembrangas para dizer que nao tenho nada a dizer. Escrevo: escrevo dos membros de sua família, posta ser este o seu porque vivemos juntos, porque fui um no meio deles, primeiro mundo social ou melhor 11 0 grupo do qual a sombra no meio de suas sombras, corpo junto dos seus crian9a fazia parte mais intimamente, naquela época, 11 carpos; escrevo porque eles deixaram em mim a sua e que nao cessa de envolve-lo é a família • Em suas marca indelével e o vestígio disso é a escrita: a lembran9as da infancia, Perec corrobora a afirmagao lembran9a deles está morta na escrita; a escrita é a de Halbwachs, quando fala do aconchego da família: lembran9a de sua morte e a afirma9ao de minha vida." 11 O círculo da família me rodeia completamente: essa (Perec, op. cit. 54) sensa9ao de cerco nao se acompanha para mim de Ao elaborar um trabalho sobre a memória, Halbwachs nenhum sentimento de esmagamento ou amea9a; ao seguiu os mesmos passos de Émile Durkheim, que em contrário, é prote9ao calorosa, amor: toda a família, a As Formas Elementares da Vida Religiosa procurou totalidade, a integralidade da família está ali, reunida encontrar urna forma de religiao mais primitiva, onde a em torno da crian9a que acaba de nascer, como urna memória coletiva é fundamental neste processo. mural ha intransponível. 11 (Perec, op. cit. p. 21) Halbwachs constrói um esquema em que distingue duas Os pais de Joe sao apresentados como um casal que memórias. A primeira seria interna/pessoal/ tudo é motivo de discussao. Este relacionamento con­ autobiográfica, enquanto que a segunda seria externa/ turbado dos pais de Allen obstaculava manifestagoes social/histórica. Para ele a primeira se apoia na segun­ públicas de ateto. Num determinado momento do filme da, urna vez que toda a história de nossas vidas, quando os pais estao comemorando um aniversário de enquanto indivíduos, está inserida dentro de urna casamento, ele como narrador afirma que esta foi a história em geral. única vez que os viu se beijando. Lax (1991 ), seu bió• Assim, no caso de A Era do Rádio, Allen procura grafo oficial, aponta que isto trouxe repercussao na vida apresentar recorda96es pessoais e construir urna obra de Woody Allen, quando diz que ele mesmo tendo tido autobiográfica. Ele mesmo nos lembra em sua narra9ao urna infancia repleta de amigos, porém como adulto é inicial citada acima, dois elementos sociais e históricos muito isolado. Ele tem dificuldade de estabelecer - a vizinham;a e o rádio. O filme revela ainda, a sua relagoes. Afeto em público com qualquer urna de suas inser9ao social na família, na escala, na escala hebraica ex-esposas era cena rara. Allen se justifica afirmando entre outros. que ninguém em sua casa jamais fez isto. Assim, a incapacidade de Allen de ser afetuoso em Afamília público, cuja justificativa está em afirmar que ninguém na família tinha este costume pode ser confirmado por Woody Al len dedicará urna boa parte do filme afamília Halbwachs (1990, p. 42), quando usando urna de Joe, que é urna caricatura de sua própria família. linguagem que lembra 11 A Alegoria da Caverna 11 no livro Em sua conversa com Bjürkman (1995, p. 163) ele diz: A República de Platao, ele procura mostrar "que urna 11 penso que A Era do Rádio é, basicamente, urna cari­ série de pequenas experiencias que sao como que um catura. Escolhi os atores de acordo com a capacidade prepara9ao para a vida adulta: é a sombra que projeta 11 que eles tinham de ser caricatos • sobre a infancia a sociedade de adultos e mesmo mais O filme apresenta o garoto Joe morando com seus pais, do que urna sombra, urna vez que a crian9a pode ser avós paternos, tios, tias e urna prima em urna única chamada a tomar parte em cuidados e responsabilida­ casa perta mar em Long Beach. Para cada membro da des cujo peso recai de ordinário sobre ombros mais 11 família Allen dedica urna recorda9ao especial. fortes que os seus • Tomo I Actas del 4º Congreso Chileno de Antropología Simposio Memoria Colectiva 589 Martín (Michael Tucker) é o pai de Joe e o oculta qual é em relacionamentos equivocados e nunca conseguía o seu trabalho, mesmo diante de reiteradas insistencias se casar. Ela na verdade nunca se casou". do filho em querer saber o que o pai faz. Num determi­ Bea apesar dos relacionamentos fracassados vive a nado momento do filme Joe leva o rádio de seu tío Abe idealidade do casamento.
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