Do you realize that we are trained since children
So that nothing hurts us too much?
Rivas Violence
In a parody of sensationalist news, Argentine humorist Diego Capusotto repeats until tiredness: “How long are we going to be a little serious country?”, While she embodies an absurdly alarmist announcer.
The style mimics certain media that exaggerate reality to generate fear and outrage.
The program It is defined such as: “Information to enter fear, panic and depression… to shit [joderse] The day from early. ”Receive calls from fictional listeners with paranoid and pessimistic messages, while the central narrator of the segment, in a serious and urgent tone, reacts as if each news represents the end of the world.
The Cubans are not very familiar with the black humor and the satire of Capusotto, although the actor interprets characters that anyone could identify in our diverse and paradoxical society.
Juan Domingo forgiveness He is the typical leader who says what “the people” wants to listen, regardless of the contradictions between speech and reality. He expresses himself solemnly, but his phrases are full of common places and hollow promises. His rhetoric mixture populism, demagogy and a false self -criticism.
This is the politician who does not have a government plan, but a forgiveness plan.
We have the leader who does not solve anything, but hugs you strong while he says he understands “the frustrations of the people.” We have the speech for patience, trust, resilience and dignity; The lapidary phrase of “You have to understand.”
Plans that do not plan; failed strategies, but of “good intentions”; blame that float without face.
Micky Vainilla He is a superficial pop singer with a retro aesthetic and a disturbing resemblance to Adolf Hitler (mustache, hairstyle, gestures). The character plays a sweetened fascist who promotes racism, xenophobia, machismo, disguised as defense of values and good taste. Parody to artists who reproduce prejudices from an alleged neutrality.
It is the influencer that supports art for all … those who have their pocket full.
We have the “people’s defender” who has never used public transport, nor has made a long tail to get cash in a bank and to buy “whatever appears.” We have those who presume to have good taste and prefer that public spaces are free of “those who do not know how to behave.”
To the promoters of bus terminals and airports only for passengers; To those who find very well that even the gardens of the headquarters of the popular power, the Capitol, are closed “for protection.”
The one who lives within the system with the grace of those who contemplate it from the privilege balcony.
Rivas Violence criticizes the system that indoctrin from childhood to produce functional and obedient citizens. Denounces consumerism, social hypocrisy and the banality of entertainment.
It is the voice of tiredness, rabid lucidity and sarcasm without filter, which says what nobody wants to hear.
We have the cry on social networks and corners. We have the anger of having believed and expected; disappointment, hopelessness.
We live with Grapefruit, the artist who believes herself rebellious for using warm metaphors; with Vinazzi, To those who do not understand, but applaud for fear to seem ignorant.
We have a Bombita Rodríguez in the mural with heroic slogans next to a closed pharmacy; In the word “socialism” at the entrance of a store that was first in CUC, then in MLC and now in dollars.
Capusotto makes humor so that we recognize the contours of a shared absurd.
And in Cuba, the absurd ceased to be the exception decades ago.
The actor’s characters appear in Cuban daily life, as spectra of a postmodernity of scarce resources and excessive irony.
My first intention was to do it in colors, as Drexler would say. I planned to recommend, for this burning summer, immerse yourself in the universe of this Argentine icon. But I remember that we have limitations of connectivity, access, time. And for many, Capusotto will remain a stranger.
However, would expose to your criticism make us a different society? Or, at least, a more lucid?
