POL 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Walter Salles, Truck Driver, Diegesis
18 Jan 2019
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Film: central do brasil (1998) by walter salles: dora is a former schoolteacher who makes a living by writing letters for illiterate people passing through rio de janeiro"s main train station, central station. Among her clients are ana and her nine-year-old son josue, who has a fierce desire to meet his father, whom he has never seen. Dora has become stoically indifferent to her charge, choosing arbitrarily to send some letters and discard others with the help of her neighbor irene. A sudden accident leaves josue orphaned at the station and this is when dora"s life begins to change dramatically. Josue: dora leaves the letter from ana to jesus next to jesus" letter to ana and leaves. Required reading: the third cinema question: notes and reflections, 17-22: third cinema texts reinforce the impression that it was a notion developed by.
