Multidirectional dialogues, transit between genres and humor senses in Teocracia em Vertigem

Abstract

Based on theoretical contributions from Bakhtin Circle, this paper analyzes Teocracia em Vertigem, a medium-length film released on YouTube by the Brazilian humor collective Porta dos Fundos as Christmas Special on December 10th, 2020. More specifically, it seeks to understand the film dialogues in relation to texts in circulation in the culture – understood as manifestations of the dialogical constitution of the discourse – as well as the ways in which the hybridization and intercalation of genres – considered as forms of heterodiscourse – manifest and contribute for the production of senses from the multiple relations between fabulation and reality engendering. As background for the discussions, it also considers the characteristics of humorous discourses, which is sometimes conceived as revelation of social codes and conventions fragilities; sometimes as a relief resulting from a momentary relaxation of psychic repression; and sometimes in its expression of carnival laughter. The paper, thus, intends to reflect on both aesthetic and critical potentialities of Teocracia em Vertigem, highlighting the presence of movements that turn the world “upside down”, which goes from the desecration of biblical narrative to the games around the arbitrariness of the representation itself.