If I were the head of marketing for Movistar Plus+, in the promotion of
Fácil
, the series by Anna R. Costa that has just been released, I would have used this slogan: "Fácil", the adaptation of "Lectura fácil" that the public did not like. author of 'Easy reading'.
Because we can all play pimps, not just Cristina Morales.
She would have even upped the ante and used in quotation marks the highly pondered qualifier that Morales gave her in the column that she wrote putting the series to a boil.
”Nazi”, she called it herself.
There you take it, dance it.
In short, as Nati, one of the protagonists of it, would say, “fantasies of a retarded bourgeoisie”.
Morales's statements have had heirs in a phenomenon that suffers from any work that portrays underrepresented groups, in this case, people with functional diversity: that of double standards.
I remember, for example, when
The L Word
was criticized because its protagonists were too beautiful and successful, as if fantasy (of a retarded bourgeoisie) should be off-limits in a lesbian series.
Or when
Orange Is the New Black
was criticized for having too much marginalization associated with non-white women.
As if that were not the case in any American jail.
The sin of
Fácil
, in the eyes of those who criticize it, is losing the militancy of the novel.
In my opinion,
Fácil
does something very difficult: she creates a naturalistic, comical and close tone under which a subtext beats that leads any viewer to question what she understands by normal and desirable, by freedom and independence.
But the subtext and humor don't get along with many militants.
Beneath the laughter there is no mockery of the protagonists, nor collusion with the system, there is the discomfort of a reality that we do not usually look at.
One where “retarded bourgeois fantasies” are much more than a bad joke in a column.
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