Abstract
This paper will focus on the conflicts between Orientals and Westerners living in Macao at the beginning of the 20th century. The film Amor e Dedinhos de Pé by the director Luís Filipe Rocha, based on the homonymous novel by Henrique de Senna Fernandes will be analyzed from a perspective of a memory film as it presents a historical reconstruction that portrays the society of Macao at a time when the region was under Portuguese rule. Through the adventures and misadventures of a young man from a declining bourgeois family, both the novel and the film denounce the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures that coexisted at the time. The relationship between the inhabitants will also be seen as a mirror of the social relations that show particularly intense moments of people’s life of the “Christian City” characterized by magnificent ballrooms, well dressed people and homes with servants, which contrasts with the poverty environment lived in the “Chinese Quarter” of dirty and tight alleys where people of humble appearance wander. The city described by Luís Filip Rocha is a place of encounters and disagreements, and also of (i)moral confrontations between East and West which help to characterize the main characters who, at various times, transgress the rules established by a closed and discriminatory society.
Highlights
This paper will focus on the conflicts between Orientals and Westerners living in Macao at the beginning of the 20th century
The film Amor e Dedinhos de Pé by the director Luís Filipe Rocha, based on the homonymous novel by Henrique de Senna Fernandes will be analyzed from a perspective of a memory film as it presents a historical reconstruction that portrays the society of Macao at a time when the region was under Portuguese rule
Through the adventures and misadventures of a young man from a declining bourgeois family, both the novel and the film denounce the contrast between Eastern and Western cultures that coexisted at the time
Summary
Uma análise do romance publicado na década de 1980 e do filme rodado em 1990 permite-nos reconhecer algumas diferenças na forma como a história é contada e que consistem essencialmente na ordem em que os episódios são apresentados e no final escolhido pelos autores que é diferente. Amor e Dedinhos de Pé não pretende ser um filme histórico, mas proporciona uma viagem por um período importante da História de Portugal quando Macau fazia parte do território português. Um dos aspetos importantes da obra de Sena Fernandes está relacionado com a Lusofonia e a forma como o escritor conseguiu captar o contraste existente entre as culturas portuguesa, macaense e chinesa. Apesar de as duas obras terem sido produzidas nas últimas décadas do século XX, a ação decorre no início desse século, quando Macau era ainda uma colónia portuguesa, situação que foi revertida em 1999, voltando à administração chinesa. Victorina Vidal por ser vesga, pouco atraente e introvertida não tinha pretendentes nem amigos e era alvo de chacota até dos mais novos, o que a levava a passar muito tempo em casa na companhia da mãe e das tias solteironas. A vida de ambos está cheia de aventuras e desventuras marcadas por encontros e desencontros, que terminam numa paixão
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