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Sacha Baron Cohen's irreverence has few equals. We Italians risk not appreciating this extreme comedy of his, often vulgar and exaggerated, but it is undeniable that it is a pungent and tearing satire that tears into 2 whatever he wants to tell. And so Showtime in defiance of all the risks and dangers arising from what Cohen can do, say and show has decided to entrust him with an entire TV series, a small one of only 7 episodes and 20 minutes of duration per episode but that digs a giant furrow in American society. Who is America is a fresco not only of what America is but of what Americans are and what contemporary man is unfortunately becoming.
We could call it the Trump Effect and yet we would risk reducing an enormous phenomenon to the mere coming of this character. As always happens in these cases, it is not Trump who represents his electorate but it is exactly the opposite, it is Trump who is the product of American society. Sacha Baron Cohen shows us exactly that. Traveling within the U.S.A. through improbable characters, using exaggerated masks and costumes but at the same time identities of a certain slice of the U.S. population shows us how it could not be that Donald Trump is the president of this America. The genius of the actor has produced a rare gem in which a handful of invented characters knock on the door of well-known personalities from the world of politics and the Jet Set proposing campaigns, proposals and solutions deliberately extreme and senseless to see the effect it does as Jannacci would have said. The result is an oppressive, disarming, disarming picture of what America can offer today. The most overwhelming character of all who succeeds clamorously in painting this fresco is the former Mossad agent impersonated by Cohen. He will open important doors, including that of Bush's former right-hand man Dick Cheney. Through him, the mask of racist and warmongering America is thrown down, the one that is not outraged but raises itself in front of a military (fake) who proposes laws and decrees to give access to weapons to minors or to create ad hoc programs of militarization of children, schools, public buildings. Not a moment of hesitation on the part of those involved, if anything a continuous increase in the name of weapons, safety and protection of the white race.
Cohen exaggerates, clamorously exaggerates and does so to provoke. Incredible how his provocations almost never instill disdain or disbelief but condescension and complicity. We see him in the shoes of an Italian designer identical to Gianluca Vacchi, who tries to rent a hyper-militarized yacht in the name of Assad, asking for instruments of death and asking the entrepreneur on duty if it is a problem for him that with that yacht you can kill some migrants. No disdain but on the contrary, in the name of business everything is lawful, even killing poor migrants in cold blood. We see him in the shoes of an ex-convict who tries to make his place in the art world by producing paintings made with feces or blood. Everyone will agree that that is art, no one will be shocked. Just as no one will be shocked at a sudden and improvised iron democrat who will try to guide the narrow-minded America towards a world where there is no difference, with the clamorous and disgusting practices he carries out. A series of already iconic and exaggeratedly improbable characters who manage to outline contemporary America. With vulgarity, with little elegance and thanks but with an effectiveness that no documentary would be able to produce.
Sacha Baron Cohen succeeds, in just 150 minutes, with the whole world against and bursts of lawsuits on the table, but he manages, without delay, to make us really understand Who is America?!

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Who is America

Una radiografia dell'America Trumpiana e non


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Cohen esagera, esagera clamorosamente e lo fa per provocare. Incredibile come le sue provocazioni non instillino quasi mai sdegno o incredulità ma accondiscendenza e complicità.
Lo vediamo nei panni di uno stilista italiano identico a Gianluca Vacchi, che prova ad affittare uno yacht iper militarizzato in nome di Assad, chiedendo strumenti di morte e chiedendo all'imprenditore di turno se per lui sia un problema che con quello yacht si possa uccidere qualche migrante. Nessuno sdegno ma anzi, in nome del business tutto è lecito, anche uccidere a sangue freddo poveri migranti.
Lo vediamo nei panni di un ex galeotto che prova a farsi spazio nel mondo dell'arte producendo dipinti fatti con le feci o il sangue. Tutti converranno che quella è arte, nessuno si scandalizzerà. Cosi come nessuno si scandalizzerà di fronte ad un improvvido e improvvisato democratico di ferro che proverà guidare la gretta America verso un mondo dove non esiste il diverso, a botte di clamorose e schifose pratiche da lui portate avanti.
Una serie di personaggi oramai gia iconici ed esageratamente improbabili che riescono a tratteggiare l'america contemporanea.
Con volgarità, con poca eleganza e grazie ma con un'efficacia che nessun documentario riuscirebbe a produrre.
Sacha Baron Cohen ci riesce, in soli 150 minuti, con tutto il mondo contro e raffiche di querele sul tavolo, ma ci riesce, senza indugi a farci capire davvero Chi è l'America?!

Perso tra le montagne di Twin Peaks mi ritrovai ad Albuquerque dove un furgone mi trasportò a Westeros e a Westworld successivamente dove ritrovai una cabina telefonica inglese con un Dottore pronto a giocare a Basket o a Calcio con me e a parlare di sociale, politica, futuro, persi come fossimo sull'isola di Lost.
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