What Have I Done to God?

Abstract

The French film Serial (Bad) Weddings will provoke the critical sense of the spectators, challenging them to experience a diversity of emotions and to construct and reconstruct ideologies. In this film we are confronted with a panoply of concepts already studied in the academic subject of Intercultural Studies, exposing stereotypes that govern contemporary French society, but which could be applied and observed in most European societies, including Portugal. The latent terrorist threat and the recent refugee problem make the film even more significant since pertinent cultural issues are again discussed. Culture, in the sense of a people's or community's way of life or if we understand it as the production and circulation of meanings, implies that there are always members who are included in it and others who are excluded, which does not go unnoticed in this French comedy, which directly indicates the problem affecting Europe and all its cultures. Camouflaging or ignoring the existence of certain thought structures, value judgements and social identities associated with all subjects could have negative repercussions in the future, in addition to those already existing. The following work will then establish a link between the reality represented in the film and the terminology and theories covered in the Intercultural Studies curricular unit.