This article sought to provide teachers with possible action strategies to address some controversial points in the history and narrative productions about the hylaea in South America through the seventh art, presenting itself as a challenge for a more in-depth reading of five films about the Amazon region in the classroom. Based on the principle of ignorance of the archetypal and symbolic forces that move man within the forest, the films studied – The Naked Jungle (1954), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Anaconda (1997), Z – The Lost City (2016) and Into the Wild (2017) – in light of Neumann's (2021) understanding of the Great Mother, in dialogue with Bachelard's phenomenology of imagination (1988 and 2003) and Durand's symbolic hermeneutics (1992 and 2004), promote an approximation of fundamental points that relate man and wild nature in an ambiguous and at the same time extreme relationship, through violence and deprivation, experiencing the possibility of nothingness as a phenomenon of risk and recognition to rediscover meaning in coexistence with the whole, forcing us to respect the limits that the civilizational process itself proposes in the face of the unknown.
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