THEon the third season of White Lotusthe global success television series written by Mark White, has ended for a few days. The story, from America, is always that of 1 percent of the population that can allow regular holidays in luxury resorts – Part of the attraction (and the audience) stems precisely from the vision of very rich lives that are not nor will ours be ours.
But, overcoming the exoticism of Thai nature and watches worn by the protagonists, A universal script flows between the lines of the stories. Which is the couple’s estate or, by emanation, of the family.
As had happened during the first season (in Maui, Hawai) and the second (in our Taormina), after the first episodes the feeling/forecast is that there will be a general implosion. That everyone will repatriate as a single. Arriving at the bottom, however, The groups prove to remain united. Despite betrayals, hypocrisies, widespread suspicions.
Barbara Stefanelli (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
A key element, in this surprise resilience, is the economy of relationships. Families are small large businesses. Separate has incalculable costs, even or above all psychological. And it is here that the extreme world of White Lotus goes to match with the Italian stories that Massimo Gramellini collects and proposes in his Heart mail For over 26 years.
Is the couple-for-sempreopia?
The “postman” Gramellini commented on the occasion of the last Saint Valentine: «The couple is the terminal of a story that, with small corrections, went on for millennia, according to the following scheme: First you fall in love, then you love each other, then you put on the family and finally you keep company Until death does not separate us “(Corriere.it).
Even if the duration of the weddings eliminated dangerously (before the silver or gold wedding were the record of a few). Even if – perhaps due to these very long times, maybe not – At one point the black swan of the passion for third people enters the scene. If not the gray swan of boredom.
Many of the appeals relaunched by Massimo reverberate the radical doubt of women and men in front of the prospect of leaving and starting again in another house or what. His response, when an answer is possible, points towards a certainty: “It is when the project is not there, or gets lost on the street, that the couple stops being thereeven if it usually takes some time to notice it. Like those cars that, after gasoline, proceed out of inertia for a few meters for inertia. Until to nail suddenly ».
Warns the postman MG: «Passion slows down, the chemistry changes, the couple-for-sempreia is a utopia». But-to continue, whitewashed swans, in the lake of another season not only television-the couple-in-farm needs hugs, dialogue and sacrifice of both.
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