On Thursday, March 13, in Netflix, adolescence premiered, a four -chapter miniseries about a 13 -year -old boy accused of killing a classmate. His most distinctive features in the content story are his realism, followed by a strong social criticism and the fact that each episode is a continuous scene, which increases the sensation of anguish in the viewer.
The narrative begins with the police breaking into the Miller family’s house to stop the youngest son, Jamie (Owen Cooper), while his parents (Stephen Graham and Christine Tremarco) and his sister (Amelie Pease) They look horrified and bewildered, crying and pleading. From there, there is no pause in chaos.
“For better or worse, adolescence evokes in the viewer the feelings of his characters: overestimulation, confusion, an increasingly powerful desire to tell everyone that he feels and streets for five damn seconds. Also grief, disbelief, a tear of the world and a surrender to never really understand, not to know, but … know,” said Margaret Lyons, television critic of the New York Times.
The producer Jack Thorn and the actor Stephen Graham They are the creators of this content, which is accompanied by the producer of Brad Pitt. “We could have made a drama about gangs and crimes with a knife, or about a child whose mother is alcoholic or whose father is a violent abuser. Instead, we wanted you to look at this family and think, my God. This could happen to us,” said the renowned British performer of popular films like “Snatch “and” Rocketman “.
The character of Jamie Miller, a 13 -year -old who is accused of killing Katie, a companion of his school to whom he stabbed seven times with a kitchen knife, interferes the viewer in a current concept and becomes virtual subculture: the INCEL. The meaning refers to an ideology that points to a third as the culprit of an individual’s romantic or sexual inactivity to justify the lack of attraction.
According to the Cambridge Universitythis is an acronym derives from the term “Involuntary Celibacy (involuntary celibacy)”, That according to its creator, the Canadian influencer Alana, In an interview for BBC, it emerged for the first time in 1997 as an effort to create a virtual forum with the function of connecting those people united by the feeling of loneliness.
“I had taken a long time. It was something like a late case of development. I thought, ‘maybe there are other people who are also out there,” confesses the creator of the forum. Although the intention of this movement was focused on creating a sense of virtual community, it became a tool with which heterosexual men blamed women for not being able to develop a reciprocal attraction link.
In 2014, when a teenager named Elliot Rodger He murdered six people and committed suicide, leaving behind a document where he expressed his hatred for women and the frustration of not being able to lose their virginity. For some members of this radical aspect of the INCEL community, the young man became an emblem and his criminal example was replicated on more than one occasion.
In a report for the Tudum portal, Stephen Graham confessed that inspiration comes behind a series of homicides committed by adolescents driven by misogyny. “There was an incident in which a child [supuestamente] He stabbed a girl. I was surprised. I was thinking ‘What’s happening? What happens in society where a boy stabs a girl to death? What is the incident that causes it? And then it happened again, and again. I really wanted to shed light on this and ask, what is happening today? What is happening? How have we reached this? ”The actor recalled.
Currently, Alana, The creator of the term that defined involuntary celibacy said: “Definitely, it was not a group of men blaming women for their problems. That is a fairly sad version of this phenomenon that is happening today. Things have changed in the last 20 years.”
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