A profecia da grande tela: o cinema futurista apontando os desafios para a teologia prática

Abstract

This paper is configured as a reflection about the possible relations between the ideas of what future is expressed in contemporary culture and Practical Theology. A symbolic analysis which seeks to establish connections between the film Her and the theological notions of future and hope are the study object of this thesis. For this, we divided the paper into three chapters. In the first chapter, entitled Cinema e Teologia Prática, an exposition is made of the historical roots of Cinema as well as of its artistic, linguistic, narrative and commercial characteristics. In the second part of the first chapter, the potential of Cinema as a pulpit, being related with the concept of cosmovision and media is presented. The second chapter, Futuro e Teologia Prática, aims at presenting the main characteristics of the thinking about the future in history and in present times, the relation of this to Practical Theology and how the different ideas of future are presented in the Cinema. Still in the second chapter the ideas of the Theology of Hope are presented as well as the concept of Eschatology, and how the relation between faith, hope and technology have shaped the main studies about the future in current times. The third chapter, Um olhar para o filme Her, shows us some of the methodologies and techniques of film analysis aiming at presenting an analysis of the film Her. This analysis seeks to understand what the main views are of the future revealed in the film, as well as their relation to the themes of hope and spirituality according to the prior chapters.