Abstract
This paper explores the film Bacurau under two aspects of Nietzsche's philosophy: perspectivism and self-affirmation. On the one hand, the break in expectations that takes place during the film allows us to interpret reality from different perspectives. On the other hand, these perspectives can also be understood as the self-affirmation of subjects, commonly denied under different prisms. Thus, firstly, I make a relationship between perspectivism and interpretation that leads to a relationship between perspectivism and freedom. Then, based on an analysis of three scenes, centered on the characters of the cangaceiro, the elderly, and the child, I suggest that perspectivism, interpretation and freedom converge in Bacurau, concluding that recalcitrant patterns of thought, especially in the form of stigmatizing perspectives, can be interrupted by the presentation of self-affirming perspectives. The affirmation of the self and of the life, the fundamental criterion of interpretive existence, is made by any human being, and the presentation of self-affirming perspectives of the various human manifestations can imply the substitution of stigmatizing perspectives.
Keywords:
Perspectivism; Self-affirmation; Bacurau