THEthe indisputable success of a transmission such as Temptation Island (Canale5), now in its fourteenth edition, deserves a more serious analysis than that which explains its plays with the high pop rate that distinguishes it. They are very pop also classic like Big Brother or The Island of the Famous, they were Mole And The Couplebut they had less audience.
What makes the story of some couples so irresistible who separate for a month, to let themselves be attempted in a village-vacation? The answer is contained in the script that by now, year after year, it repeats some clichés.
At the top of the public rating of the public (measurable now with the number of social interactions, given that the program is torn by the youngest) there are betrayals. And more brutal and brazen are, the more the spirits. The forced or the Damerino who, having already cornified the partner, scientifically plan to participate in the transmission to leave it and make a new story becomes the infamous on which everyone can pour indignation.
Antonella Baccaro (photo by Carlo Vangeri Gilbert).
Same scheme for the Alumuse that, after having made her boyfriend lose his head-to-zerohe gets excited for the first two biceps of others who go on. And if those who betray is the subject of a media pillory that now chases it even outside the program, the victim is instead adopted by the public, and is destined to appear in some other transmission or at least to monetize popularity by opening a social profile.
Apparently innocent dynamics that however conceal an sleeved conception of relationships, in which everyone’s reasons are cut with acceptance. Just like the videos shown to the protagonists in front of the bonfires: a version of the mounted reality on purpose to cause platelet reactions. There is no shortage of repentance and forgiveness, so sudden not to appear crediblebut that are believed, as long as they appear redeemed.
Only the emperor is missing who, from the highest bench of the combat arena, the thumb weapons. All in line with that performance of relationships Which now considers real only what is framed by a goal. For better or for worse.
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