Análisis de la Reconstrucción de Memoria Histórica del origen del Narcotráfico: Un estudio de Caso de la Película Colombiana Pájaros de Verano

Abstract

This investigation focused on investigating and knowing if the cinema can be considered a source of information about a historical event, in addition to this, it was analyzed if the Colombian film Pájaros de Verano shows a real panorama of the origin of drug trafficking. This monograph was divided into two chapters, the first exposes the origins of drug trafficking and how, narratively, this was reconstructed in the feature film. In the second chapter the composition of the film was technically analyzed, in the chapters the theory proposed by Casetti and Di Chio in their book How to Analyze a Film was taken into account. It was concluded that the film does reconstruct the real events, however, it also mixes fiction through characters created for the story. Although the film Pájaros de Verano is a representation of the origin of drug trafficking, it is not as accurate as a documentary would be, for this reason it is considered a fictional film based on real events, it fulfills the function of entertaining and at the same time contextualizes the viewer about this fact. The present investigation is important because the cinema shows new ways of communicating information, in this case it does so about a historical fact, through the reconstruction of the historical memory about the origin of drug trafficking, mixing reality and fiction to build its story and contextualize the viewer about what the Marimbera Bonanza was, an event that marked a before and after in the history of Colombia.