Nude - the Nihilistic poetics in Mike Leigh's Naked (1993)

This article analyzes the film Naked (1993) by Mike Leigh, highlighting the complexity of the protagonist Johnny, played by David Thewlis, a character who embodies feelings of anguish and self-deprecation. The justification for this article lies mainly in its novelty, i.e. its high degree of originality, since a search in the CAPES catalogue of theses and dissertations on 14 May 2025 found no record of any kind relating to Mike Leigh, best exemplifying, no thesis or dissertation on the director. The social and scientific relevance of the research is also justified by the fact that there is no work on the subject in Brazil, either in Intercom or Compós, explaining the innovative vein of the text. The research, by its nature, required the use of the qualitative method for its improvement, whose singular characteristic establishes the analysis of textual and imagery data as the starting point. The following can be cited as basic works Naked and Other Screenplays – Mike Leigh, 1995, Introdução à Teoria do Cinema - Robert Stam, 2013, Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus - Jean-Louis Baudry, 1974-1975.