The Noise and the end of the world in "Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani?" (2005)

Abstract

In this work, we propose some articulations on music, late capitalism, the role of the artist and the act of artistic creation based on the narrative of the film Eli, Eli, Lema Sabachthani? (2005), written and directed by Shinji Aoyama. We start with some considerations about the issue of suicide in Japanese society, based on texts by Rankin (2011), Ozawa-de Silva (2021) and Axell and Kase (2002), seeing that this is one of the central themes of the film's narrative . Next, we propose some dialogues between the works of Jacques Attali (2009), Paul Hegarty (2007), Mark Fisher (2020) and Gilles Deleuze (2016), which will help us shed light on some nuances of Aoyama's film, thus trying to understand how the narrative of Eli, Eli, , Lema Sabachthani? produces thinking about such issues.