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Per loro, tornare lì vuol dire tanto, vuol dire riprendere da dove avevano concluso (la fine di The Wire) e rituffarsi tra le strade e nei palazzi del potere per capire che cosa sia accaduto nel frattempo e se qualcosa si sia mosso.
Quale sarà stata la loro "sentenza"?
Per chi non avesse visto The Wire, oltre allo spassionato consiglio di recuperarla, stiamo parlando di una delle pietre angolari della serialità.
Lo show, andato in onda sulla HBO tra il 2002 ed il 2008, aveva delineato i tratti di un'America dove i conflitti razziali, la police brutality e, soprattutto, lo schema politico/sociale impedivano il progresso e l'uguaglianza tanto proclamata nella costituzione americana.
Il finale, quello splendido ed enigmatico finale, ci suggerivano che, nonostante gli sforzi di tanti uomini e donne buoni (poliziotti, politici, gente comune) ed i tanti cambiamenti di facciata, nulla cambiava davvero. Le diseguaglianze restavano, i conflitti permanevano, gli abusi non calavano, il crimine non veniva mai davvero contrastato.
20 anni dopo il Gattopardo è ancora lì. Tutto è cambiato affinchè nulla sia davvero cambiato.
Emblematici sono gli ultimi 20 minuti del nuovo show di HBO, dove vengono passati in rassegna gli eventi giudiziari e politici legati allo scandalo che nel 2017 ha travolto la task foce denominata "Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force", chiamata a debellare il crimine nelle strade e finita per incentivare e creare una vera e propria organizzazione criminale all'interno della polizia.
I membri di quella squadra speciale hanno finito per macchiarsi di crimini efferati che, a vario titolo, li hanno portati a condanne dai 7 ai 25 anni, travolgendo tutto il sistema politico e giudiziario di Baltimora e dell'America tutta.
Corruzione, depistaggi, furti e depravazione hanno reso quella task force un'onta che ha macchiato l'America tutta.
Una cosa, del finale, mi ha lasciato di stucco più di ogni altra.
Le efferatezze della Gun Trace erano note a tutti ma nessuno le denunciava, tale era il potere di Wayne Jenkins (uno splendido Jon Bernthal) e della sua squadra.
Quando, però, quelle spietate e delinquenziali azioni vennero a galla, si fece di tutto per condannare i colpevoli (che infatti furono tutti incarcerati a lungo) senza, tuttavia, riformare la polizia.
Ci fu, anzi, un continuo ostacolare chi, come il commissario Davis e tanti altri, provasse a mettersi in gioco nel tentativo di sradicare le erbacce e rivitalizzare le forze di polizia attraverso un percorso che riportasse i cittadini a fidarsi di nuovo delle forze armate.
Non sarebbe stato facile come percorso ma sarebbe stato doveroso e naturale avviare quel processo.
Questo non avvenne e l'unica cosa che accadde è che quei portatori reali di cambiamento furono tutti rimpiazzati o costretti a dimettersi, o semplicemente scoraggiati a continuare la battaglia.
Sviluppo Personaggi: 8
Complessità: 9
Originalità: 9
Autorialità: 10
Cast: 7,5
Intensità: 9
Trama: 6,5
Coerenza: 8
Profondità: 10
Impatto sulla serialità contemporanea: 7
Componente Drama: 10
Componente Comedy: 2
Contenuti Violenti: 8
Contenuti Sessuali: 2
Comparto tecnico: 7
Regia: 6,5
Intrattenimento: 2
Coinvolgimento emotivo: 6
Opening: 9
Soundtrack: 4
Produzione: HBO
Anno di uscita: 2022
Stagione di riferimento: 1
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Would you vote for David Simon and George Pelecanos for the Pulitzer?
How catlike has our society become?
Is there anything we can do to take back the fortunes of our cities?
I had already told you about We Own This City in this first impression post.
As always happens when I talk about HBO products, especially those featuring the collaboration of David Simon and George Pelecanos, I end up getting carried away by what is shown and told.
In fact, no one can get me into the thick of things more than they can, projecting my consciousness to issues that are dealt with in a detached, and therefore never emotional and subjective, detailed way.
With the author duo you have to put your head as well as your heart into it. The combination of the 2 usually allows you to think, reflect and reason for real about the atavistic problems that surround us, without polarizing them, without making them the subject of barroom discussions.
We Own This City starts again in Baltimore, from the land that launched. now 2 decades ago, Pelecanos and Simon, thanks to The Wire.
Baltimore stands to the 2 authors as Rome stands to Totti, as Manhattan stands to Woody Allen, as Naples stands to Totò.
For them, going back there means so much, it means picking up where they left off (the end of The Wire) and diving back into the streets and palaces of power to figure out what has happened in the meantime and whether anything has moved.
What will have been their "judgment"?
For those who have not seen The Wire, besides the dispassionate advice to catch up with it, we are talking about one of the cornerstones of seriality.
The show, which aired on HBO between 2002 and 2008, had outlined the features of an America where racial conflicts, police brutality and, above all, the political/social pattern prevented the progress and equality so much proclaimed in the U.S. Constitution.
The ending, that splendid and enigmatic finale, suggested to us that despite the efforts of so many good men and women (policemen, politicians, ordinary people) and the many cosmetic changes, nothing really changed. Inequalities remained, conflicts persisted, abuses did not subside, and crime was never really tackled.
We Own This City, which takes its cue from a real-life court case that occurred only a few years ago in the Baltimore Police Department, sets out, in its larger scheme, to take stock nearly 15 years after that finale and 20 years after the beginning of The Wire.
The finale of We Own This City leaves no room for doubt.
20 years later The Leopard is still there. Everything has changed so that nothing has really changed.
Emblematic are the last 20 minutes of HBO's new show, where the judicial and political events related to the scandal that in 2017 engulfed the task force called the Baltimore Gun Trace Task Force, which was called to stamp out crime in the streets and ended up incentivizing and creating a real criminal organization within the police force.
Members of that special squad ended up staining themselves with heinous crimes that, in various capacities, led them to sentences ranging from 7 to 25 years, overwhelming the entire political and judicial system of Baltimore and all of America.
Corruption, deception, theft and depravity made that task force a disgrace that stained all of America.
One thing about the ending left me stunned more than any other.
Police Commissioner Davis, called upon a few years earlier to lift and clean up the fortunes of the entire police force, is replaced by the mayor at the time because of his real commitment to fighting what was happening, because of his manifest desire to change things.
The message behind that dismissal is that there is no real political will to change, to improve, to revise things.
The heinous acts of Gun Trace were known to all but no one denounced them, such was the power of Wayne Jenkins (a splendid Jon Bernthal) and his team.
When, however, those ruthless and criminal deeds came to light, everything was done to convict the culprits (who in fact were all jailed for a long time) without, however, reforming the police.
There was, on the contrary, a continual obstruction of those who, like Commissioner Davis and so many others, tried to get involved in an attempt to uproot the weeds and revitalize the police force through a path that would bring citizens back to trusting the armed forces again.
It would not have been easy as a path but it would have been proper and natural to start that process.
That did not happen and the only thing that did happen was that those real bearers of change were all replaced or forced to resign, or simply discouraged from continuing the battle.
In their place were token faces who, punctually, ended up repeating the same mistakes, looking the other way and pleasing the powers-that-be.
In their place were token faces who, punctually, ended up repeating the same mistakes, looking the other way and pleasing the powerful of the day.
Once again, in Baltimore, and throughout America, everything changed so that nothing would change.
20 years after The Wire began.
15 years after its incredible series finale.
The Leopard has not moved.
He is still there, he just changed his appearance. He has only modified his behavior.
Character Development: 8
Complexity: 9
Originality: 9
Authorship: 10
Cast: 7.5
Intensity: 9
Plot: 6.5
Consistency: 8
Depth: 10
Impact on contemporary seriality: 7
Drama component: 10
Comedy Component: 2
Violent Content: 8
Sexual Content: 2
Technical Comparison: 7
Direction: 6.5
Entertainment: 2
Emotional Engagement: 6
Opening: 9
Soundtrack: 4
Production: HBO
Year of release: 2022
Reference season: 1
