REQUIEM FOR A DREAM: THE INDIVIDUAL/SOCIETY RELATIONSHIP PERMEATED BY FOOD AS AN ADDICTION
Requiem for a dream; Society; Individual; Addiction; Food.
This research aims to comprehend eating as addiction by problematizing the individual/ society relationship from the film Requiem for a Dream, directed by Darren Aronofsky. Considering that Cinema has much to say about the social, whose transformations are determinant in our relationship to food, this work will be guided by the ideas that eating can become addiction, compulsion, and eating together may be converted into an individual aspect, intertwining to a logic of consumption and individual freedom. Still, Zygmunt Bauman’s perspectives will be taken to consider this process of individualization as fatality, instead of choice. It is intended to analyze the film, centerpiece of this research, from three reading keys (the television, the refrigerator and the table) in order to: (a) investigate how the film’s cinematic language may provide the understanding of the experience of addiction; (b) to analyze the relevance of this language for the study of eating aspects, and (c) to reflect on the biopsychosocial aspects that involve the relationship between addiction and food.