In « adolescence » the technique flattens the story too much
Seria Netflix is shot in a single sequence plan: we can imagine how many times the scenes have been repeated, with the result that we are faced with a redundant acting, much more theatrical than television
The rare happiness of being able to say « I have not seen it », about a series that everyone speaks! Edmondo Berselli referred to the cinema, but the meaning remains. For work, however, I had to follow the Four episodes of « adolescence »the English series of Netflix « all of which speak ».
I did not imagine that in Italy there were So many experts of bullying, of psychology of the evolutionary age, of Manosphere pill, the virtual universe of all the movements that cultivate an idea of toxic masculinity, red pills and blue, misogyny and opposition to feminism, of incel (Involuntary celibacy: many males are convinced of being excluded from sexual relationships not for their own particular shortcomings), due to women), due to women). of sexual harassers.
So I will only talk about language. The main feature of « teenagence », directed by Philip Barantini, is to be a thriller shot in a single sequence plan, that is, without detachments, without assembly, as if each episode was made up of a single shot.
As he did, it is always mentioned, Alfred Hitchcock In « Rope » («knot to the throat», 1948) shot in a penthouse of Manhattan. In reality, it was eleven sequence plans united together in order to obtain a substantial unit between time and action and overcome the strong limits that the stylistic choice imposes on the script.
Usually, the sequence plan is considered A virtuosity within a narrative tissue that can use the fundamental function of assembly. In « adolescence », the story can only be subject to the tension between what is on the field and what remains off the pitch, according to the most classic theatrical rules: fatally, here the technique flattens history.
We can imagine how many times the scenes They have been repeated to obtain this effect of continuity with the result that we are faced with a redundant acting, much more theatrical than television. It is as if the actors were dematerialized to become ideas (didactic) and the allegories events: as fascinating as it is spectral. And in any case, it is anti-television.
