Ciclos do inevitável no filme Querô

Abstract

This paper analyzes the film Querô through the relationship between structural racism, state violence, incarceration, necropolitics, and the marginalization of Black bodies. The study draws on Querô’s trajectory to discuss how social exclusion emerges as a cycle that continues from one generation to the next. The film is approached as an object of critical visual literacy, taking into account images, framing, camera movements, and scenes of institutional violence. The theoretical framework draws on authors such as Silvio Almeida (2019), Michel Foucault (2011), Achille Mbembe (2018), Angela Davis (2018), and Abdias do Nascimento (1978). The concept of structural racism guides the understanding of the inequalities that shape the protagonist’s life from birth. The notion of necropolitics makes it possible to interpret the actions of the State toward lives regarded as disposable. The discussion of incarceration, based on Angela Davis, presents prison as a continuation of historical mechanisms of racial control. The analysis of Alzira highlights the vulnerability of marginalized women and the transmission of violence to her son. In Querô’s experience at FEBEM, the paper examines the construction of the “social villain” and the normalization of punishment. The rebellions and escapes are interpreted as attempts to break away from a structure that leads the protagonist toward destruction. In the final considerations, the author acknowledges gaps, especially regarding the character Alzira and a possible feminist approach. The paper therefore concludes that Querô exposes the cycles of exclusion, violence, and death imposed on Black and marginalized subjects