Cartografias Fluviais: Os Espaços de Subjetividades em The Eighth Sense (2023)

Abstract

This work, “Fluvial Cartographies: Spaces of Subjectivity in The Eighth Sense (2023)”, investigates the representation of the protagonists’ psyche in the Boys Love K-drama The Eighth Sense (2023). Through film analysis, the research examines how spatial architecture and the element of water function as a system of representation for the characters’ internal processes (memories, traumas, and emotions) mobilizing the concept of “space vissuto” (Bruno, 2002). The analysis outlines a hierarchy of river spaces that reveals the narrative journey from confinement to emotional freedom. In this way, the study demonstrates how cinematic plasticity visually translates the characters’ inner emotions, using water as the central element of an emotional geography.