2012 the movie, the ethics of responsibility and narrative about the end of the world: between gaps and silence

Abstract

It proposes a reflection about the ethical issues present in the movie 2012 (2009). It discusses the ethics of responsibility that locate the man in a new context, in which nature should not be seen as a place of domination and human egocentrism. The new ethics need to get out of reductionism anthropocentric, understanding the man as a subject integrated with and responsible for the nature. In the film 2012, we see discursive strategies that shift the focus of discussion, for example, global warming, classified as a natural phenomenon, regardless of human action. For justified this narrative position, are made gaps and silences speech.