ABSTRACT
The article examines Neighboring Sounds (2012Mendonça Filho, Kleber. O som ao redor. 131 min. Recife: CinemaScópio, 2012.), by Kleber Mendonça Filho, and explores, sociologically and imagetically, the continuities and discontinuities between the film and the book The Masters and the Slaves, by Gilberto Freyre. If Neighboring Sounds is an allegory about the interpretation of Brazil proposed by Gilberto Freyre, it is, above all, a phantasmagorical allegory that, in its imagistic narrative, questions the propositions of Freyre about Brazilian society.
KEYWORDS:
cinema; anthropology; antagonism; The Master and the Slaves; The Neighboring Sounds