Narrative as event in the film Central Station

Abstract

The objective of this article is to interpretate the audiovisual narrative from the concept of event, seeking to provide a new approach besides its representative aspects traditionally focused. The object of study is the pilgrimage scene from Walter Salles’s feature film Central Station (1998), that has being thought mainly in it’s representational field. As theoretical tools, we will adopt the text “The virtualities of the cinematographic narrative” (2013), in which André Parente presents an internal criticism to Gilles Deleuze’s system-cinema. We aim to demonstrate that the narrative as event intensifies the cinematographic experience, because the time of the image and the one from de spectator identifies.