Walter Benjamin E O Túmulo Dos Vagalumes

productions in the Japanese film industry. Initially, a brief synopsis of the animation is presented, along with Benjamin's description of the themes of narrative and experience. Next, connections are made between animation and the ideas of the German philosopher. The first analysis that is done is that the central character of the plot described in Tomb of fireflies is configured as a Benjamin narrator, as he brings with him the important task of reporting his dramatic life experience. The animation plot reveals a tragic experience that Seita and Setsuko, the protagonists, want to share. Such an experience constitutes, in the form of a narrative made through words and images, a message to the world: that their stories are not in fact forgotten; on the contrary, the moral lesson from this narrative reveals that it is by telling the story that tragedies such as these cannot be repeated in the future. It is also noted that the experiences emphasized by the philosopher prove to be increasingly impoverished, something that is seen in the relationships established between people with emblematic selfish attitudes, as portrayed in Tomb of the Fireflies. Therefore, the aspects approached by Benjamin dialogue with that animation, revealing a myriad of possibilities that exist in the identification of philosophical themes in cinematographic work

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