Cinema as an activating force: Goat marked for death and the legacy of our tragedy

Abstract

The movie Cabra marcado pra morrer is analyzed by means of dialectical mediation between social process and aesthetic form. While the fictional version (1964) was a political response to João Pedro Teixeira’s murder, the choice in finalizing it in a documentary format (1984) shows the brutal consequences of the interruption of the classes’ experience that was in ways of articulation. Trough the structure of a narrative of a diaspora, the documentary offers progressively the regressive path of our last cycle of conservative modernization and makes explicit the obstacles to the capability of worker class organization. By hooking two historical times, the movie articulates a process of experience accumulation, which has by key two outcomes: the self consciousness of the recovery of the role of peasant struggle and the end of a fighter’s generation