Latinofobia: do discurso político vencedor para as telas de cinema – uma leitura decolonial a partir de Rambo Last Blood (2019)

Abstract

This research aims investigates how the fifth film in the Rambo franchise joins the previous volumes by replicating a Manichean logic that initially had Vietnamese and Soviet scope. However, it also problematizes how such a discourse is updated since the rhetoric of the cold war gives way to a Latinophobic position with a focus on Mexicans. This change is associated with a series of elements that relate to the production period of the film, the main one being the election of Donald Trump to the White House in 2016. Thus, this dissertation, through the decolonial prism, aims to decode the elements contained in Rambo (Rambo: Last Blood, 2019) that corroborate Trump's xenophobic stance towards Latinos, thus spreading colonial symbols of contempt for the global south as well as its inhabitants.