“Epa, my Future is Becoming more and more Uncertain”: Perspectives of the Future Through the Soundtrack and The Child's Discourse in the Postcolonial Representations of the Movie the Blue Eyes of Yonta (1992), of Flora Gomes

Abstract

The flm The blue eyes by Yonta (Udju azul di Yonta - 1992) is the second fction feature-length made by the Bissau-Guinean flmmaker Flora Gomes. The drama narrates the history of the different generations that lived colonial, postcolonial and neocolonial, through the lives of the characters Yonta, Zé, Vicente and Amilcarzinho, passing through the political, economic, social, artistic and cultural history of Guinea Bissau. Components of the soundtrack, the perspective of the future from the discourse /speech of the child Amilcarzinho, and Guinea-Bissau are highlighted for this article. For this purpose, critical texts on African cinemas, especially from Portuguese-speaking countries, are used as theoretical support, and interviews conducted by the flmmaker, that are listed in the references.