The End of Love , the
Amazon
original series
based on the book of the same name by
Tamara Tenenbaum
and starring Lali Espósito, came to open television on the El Trece screen.
There a young woman rebels against romantic love, monogamy and sexual relationships as she knew them.
Lali puts herself in the shoes of an energetic philosopher raised in an Orthodox Jewish community who tries to follow her own desire and even question everything that religion and tradition taught her.
It is a comedy-drama of ten 30-minute episodes that confirmed its second season
last October
, although it still has no release date.
What do we expect from our partners today? How do we live being single? How have our relationships changed? Who do we have sex with? Where do we meet people?
Here are some excerpts with fundamental concepts that Tenenbaum develops in the
editorial book Ariel
.
1- Religion and desire
The true parameter to measure the desirability or otherwise of a marriage is the family of origin of each interested party.
In fact, the opposite case is relatively common, typical of an unfortunate princess: parents who force a girl to marry a boy because she comes from a good family.
Orthodox Judaism, like any society based on traditional or pre-modern values, does not believe in the idea of the individual, which is one of the conceptual pillars of modern romantic love: if we did not think that all people are unique, special and unrepeatable, falling in love with someone in particular wouldn't make sense.
Subjective terms do not exist in universes of this type: a “good match” is for anyone, not exclusively for you.
Lali Espósito puts herself in the shoes of a rebellious philosopher in The End of Love.
Photo Juano Tesone.
2- Freedom and couple
Freedom has a direct influence on our expectations.
We all (women, men and those who do not recognize themselves in those words) ask much more of our partners than previous generations demanded of them.
It is not just about
divorce
: the new conversations about sexuality, the expansion, for women, of the possibilities of seeking pleasure and meaning in other spaces (professional, educational, artistic, political) outside the family and the idea that more generalized (historically driven by alternative spaces and then also by mass media and consumer society) that the search for pleasure and fun is a reasonable aspiration and not a sinful impulse that must be resisted converged in this process of expanding our ambitions .
3- Want it all
In the 21st century our love ambitions are fearless.
It is not enough for us to marry a good person, a guy who brings bread to the table;
Nor with a relationship that looks correct from the outside and inside makes us feel miserable.
We want
equal, honest relationships
, and we're eager to try to understand what that means.
We also want to fall in love, we want to fuck and we want to be loved;
we want stability and we want adrenaline, the lifeboat and the surf, all at the same time.
Lali Espósito, Vera Spinetta and Julieta Zapiola.
Amazon press photo.
4- Links and new paradigms
What I understand by a new paradigm is all of this: the commitment to
friendship as a policy, the construction of consensual and serious emotional ties
(in the sense of important) that, however, have a certain flexibility, in which there is responsibility but also understanding. , in which there may or may not be sex.
Build communities of love and friendship that are supportive, solid, even if they accept the precarious condition of existence and ties.
5- Dating apps: the new clubs?
Meeting people is difficult
for several reasons.
Many of us remain single until several years after finishing high school and even - those of us lucky enough to go - college.
Video
Based on the best-selling book of the same name by Tamara Tenenbaum, the drama series follows Tamara, an irreverent pop culture philosopher.
Premieres November 4 on Amazon Prime Video.
We do not have
community ties
with the people of the neighborhood;
We participate much less in religious or mutual institutions of descendants of Italians, Spanish, Armenians or Irish than our parents and grandparents did.
We live in highly stratified societies in terms of social class and sociocultural segment, so even if we don't marry the people in our neighborhood, we quickly run out of options to explore.
Dating apps
come
to occupy that role that bars and clubs had (and still have, although less and less): providing us with a new set of people to look for our better half, whether for life or for this one. evening.
6- Single, not alone
In the 21st century, for most of us, being single means having sex with many people: simultaneously or successively, continuously or from time to time.
The series consists of 10 episodes.
Fuck with friends, with friends of friends, with people we met in a bar or on the Internet, with ex-partners, with someone who may become a future partner (which most of the time does not happen), with people who are in other couples, open or closed: with anyone.
With fragments from The End of Love (Editorial Ariel), by Tamara Tenenbaum.