Paisagens e lugares urbanos em Drive (2011): silêncio, intimidade, intensidade

Abstract

Drive (2011), directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, approaches cinematic genres and productions from the United States of America with European aesthetics and rhythms in a way that possibilities an experience that embroils the tensions ofurban existence. In the geographical reading realized by the paper, it attempts to, by the means of the analyses and interpretation of frames, decipher the relations of the characters with the (diegetic) places and landscapes where they are. Comprehending a phenomenological perspective, the ways by which the subjects interact and conform senses to the urban spacialities and images, is an effort to understand that the city (re)constructs itself as a character-place of intimacy and indifference that spill over at the moments of violence. By the means of the protagonist diegetic perception, it is identified the ways subjects can transmute landscapes as to create new lived spatial forms. At the movie, the city indicates trails into its innards and signals in order to evidence the space at which the characters are inserted is also a continuation of their world comprehension. By the landscape in flux of the filmography spacialities where the certainties of the visibilities can be dissolved by the corporeality of the characters emerge. Thereby, it is exposed the means by which the urban environment, in its oppressions and tensions, is a nuclei of significations that substances itself in places.