Análisis de la narrativa cinematográfica alrededor del realismo mágico en américa latina. Estudio de caso: Guillermo Del Toro.

Abstract

Magical realism within film productions contains a broad concept in the cultural trajectory of Latin America where the cultural heritage of this region is infused and shared from the orality of the people. There are exponents who go beyond the limit and provide this style in their productions to evidence the culture to which they belong, one of them is the Mexican director, screenwriter, producer and novelist, Guillermo del Toro. This article takes as reference the Mexican filmmaker and two of his productions to analyze, the films chosen are: "Pan's Labyrinth" (2006) and "The Shape of Water" (2007). As a general objective, the research proposes to analyze the cinematographic narrative of Guillermo del Toro around magical realism in the chosen films, a methodology of audiovisual narrative analysis is used, which studies the cinematographic elements so that the film can be considered as "magical realism". The article presents the scenes that contain aesthetics and characters that give life to Guillermo del Toro's style and how these contain Latin American cultural aspects that start from the real world to take it to a fantastic world where the experiences of the same are reflected in the productions. The research shows that the characters chosen by the filmmaker are a reflection of the evil that exists in the world, and the monsters are a reflection of the beings branded by society. It also presents the camera shots that help the magical realism to predominate in the scene.