The Aesthetics of ‘Speaking Objects’ in Aniki-Bóbó’s Anthropo-cosmo-morphic Material

The surface of the things which make up pro-filmic constitutes shell/ signifier chosen to shape soul filmic world or its anthropo-cosmo-morphic image rendered by techniques film language. result is creation a complex and multi-layered “possible world”, consisting discursive parts that speak through dramaturgy aesthetics film, socio-semantics transfigures matter bodies objects mechanisms re-signification. Amongst these, intellectual montage as well all graphic audio signs appear on scene can be identified. These stand out because their metaphorical-discursive capacity, will analysed in Aniki-Bóbó (1942) Manoel de Oliveira: written words serve give voice inanimate (Carlitos’ bag); modelled forms reproduce material allegories doubles human body (the doll); fragile materials refer children’s fragility itself; steel iron mechanised infrastructures showing modernisation country; classical architecture, nature place free, open-air spaces games, opposed closed recall underdeveloped pedagogical institutions; among latter, liminal par excellence, symbolised ‘Shop Temptations’. In whole, bodies, places are thus configured interconnected single compact world, cosmos reflected anthropo, anthropo cosmos, order transfigure, metaphorical key, immaterial culture referring changes national identity. This allegorical fable Portuguese ultimately proposes possibility social (and political) change, projected into ‘just’ future without dictatorship (victory good over evil).