Experiências do espectador adulto e da criança: distintas relações entre narrativa e interpretação em SOUL, da PIXAR

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the connection between the reading and the interpretation of different spectators towards a narrative, through the film Soul (Soul, Pete Docter, 2020), from Pixar Animation Studios. For this matter, the research aims to understand how narratives are created and the importance of the individual experiences of readers for the interpretation of stories. Thus, the work intends to present conditions for the comprehension of the ways in which the distinct experiences of different audiences, in this case, children and adults, manage to construct unusual meanings and interpretations of the same narrative. From this some analytics operators are chosen in order to base the analysis of the work and leave the research more indepth, such as narrative and reading, in addition to carrying out a historical overview of Pixar and a mapping of the films, in order to find similarities in the narratives produced by the studio until reaching Soul. The analysis is divided into three subtopics of characters as a means to understand the reading of animation scenes by children and adult groups in order to apprehend how individual factors of each group are able to form distinct experiences in the narrative. From this point of view, it is possible to perceive that the groups have individualities that shape the interpretation of the narrative, creating readings from their own experiences, this factors being of age, ethnicity, social status, among others. It is noteworthy that the analysis was shaped by the assumption of two different types of reading, that is, it was made of the reading processes from an apprehension of the text and its conditions of experiences, however, the interpretive analyzes for the film do not are limited to just two. The decision to look at both an adult and a children’s reading of the film was due to the connection Pixar films have with adult audiences and audiences of children and younger people. However, a reception analysis was not carried out and the interpretative analyzes of the film are not narrowed down to two, only. The decision to observe an adult's and a children's reading of the film was motivated by the connection that Pixar's films have with adult, infant and young audiences. Therefore, the viewers of these groups have experiences and encyclopedias that guarantee unique and diverse readings among themselves, starting from their personal looks towards the film, its scenes and characters present in the plot.