A representação da perda e do luto em Da Colina Kokuriko

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the representation of loss and mourning in the japanese animation From Up On Poppy Hill, from 2011, a work directed by Gorō Miyazaki and scripted by Hayao Miyazaki, from Studio Ghibli. The film tells the story of the character Umi Matsuzaki who, in the midst of mourning after the death of her father during the Korean War, embarks on a mission in defense of the school club - Quartier Latin - with the young Shun Kazama to prevent the demolition of the building. The study was based on a psychoanalytic film analysis that understands cinema as a language constructed by 'imagens-furo' (Weinmann, 2017; Rivera, 2008) to understand Umi's work of mourning. To do so, we base ourselves on the psychoanalytic theoretical framework, especially on Sigmund Freud's Mourning and Melancholia (1917), as well as on other Freudian texts that discuss the theme of object loss and mourning. Thus, the analysis of the animation allowed us to understand what the Freudian theory presents us about the work of mourning and its painful character, however necessary in the elaboration of losses. In addition, with Umi's trajectory, we understand that mourning.