INCOME DISTRIBUTION POLICIES: PARADOXES OF INEQUALITY REPRESENTED IN THE DOCUMENTARY “GARAPA” AND IN THE REALITY-SHOW “RICH WOMEN”

Abstract

This article, with a qualitative approach, is an exploratory and descriptive study, which focuses on the social contexts represented in the plots of the film "Garapa", a documentary that portrays the lives of families suffering from hunger, in contrast to the scenario of the reality-show “Mulheres Ricas”, a television attraction about another social class with high purchasing power. The social inequality existing in Brazil, caused, among other things, by the poor distribution of income, increases the gap that separates a very rich class from an extremely poor one, as demonstrated in the respective analyzed works. It was found that public policies for income distribution, aimed at the poor population, still remain with a merely welfare nature, despite showing some results, as such programs are the only source of resources existing in adverse contexts such as the interior of the Brazilian hinterland.