RIPPLE-RIPPLES
Type: dramatic
Direction: Michele Giannusa. With Frankie Faison, Julia Chan, Sydney Agudong, Ian Harding, Marci T. House, Sarah Swire, Vanessa Smythe, Robert Bazocchi. On Netflix
They call it the “butterfly effect”: it is the idea that every encounter, even the most casual, hides a meaning that only over time will we be able to grasp. In a magnetic and pulsating New York, the lives of four people run parallel and then intertwine: they are four strangers, apparently distant, yet united by a chain of events that will lead them to transform themselves and the idea they have of the world.
Walter is a pensioner who has to deal with a sudden loss; Nate, pub managerhas a daughter with a serious disability, a health problem and is dealing with a divorce; Kris, employee of a record companyfinds himself without a job; Aria battles depression as he tries to bring out his talent as a musician.
Vanessa Smythe and Robert Bazzocchi in “Ripple-Ripples”
Four ordinary stories, in which it is all too simple to see oneself reflectedagainst the backdrop of a New York far from the glamorous imagination, Ripple-Ripples he seems to want to reassure us about the beauty of simplicity.
The stones thrown into a pond at the beginning of the series create concentric circles as metaphors for everyday lives that are “heroic” in their own way.
For those who want to get excited with the small and revolutionary gestures of everyday life.
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