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Se Rebecca è riuscita ad essere un tale faro è grazie all'amore incondizionato che ha donato a Jack prima ed ai suoi figli poi, diffondendolo come un profumo si diffonde sulla pelle e nell'ambiente circostante, a tutti coloro i quali sono stati interessati da quell'amore, anche solo tangenzialmente. Ma Rebecca ha avuto anche la fortuna di essere essa stessa oggetto di un amore incondizionato, quello che Jack le ha testimoniato fino all'ultimo respiro, fino a quella corsa alla macchinetta del caffè in ospedale, fino a quando un limone amarissimo le finisse nello spremiagrumi chiedendole di tirar fuori una discreta limonata. L'amore di Jack e Rebecca, nato oltre mezzo secolo prima degli eventi del finale, ha travolto tutti, ha travolto noi spettatori ma anche tutti gli altri protagonisti.
Quel consesso di uomini, donne e bambini ordinariamente straordinari che vediamo radunati nella villa costruita da Kevin e nella quale Rebecca esala l'ultimo respiro, è un conglomerato di persone che non sarebbero esistite senza quel rapporto speciale instauratosi fra i coniugi Pearson decadi e decadi prima.
Nicky è un uomo che ha perso il fratello e la sua intera famiglia in seguito a quella maledetta guerra in Vietnam che lo ha reso un esule, un'eremita, colpevole solo di aver detto no alla violenza. Il suo fratellone Jack ha continuato ad esistere e vivere senza che lui potesse fare nulla per vederlo, abbracciarlo, prenderlo in giro almeno un'ultima volta. Ci è voluta la testardaggine di Kev, bambino mai cresciuto che forse si è fatto uomo proprio quando ha deciso di non voltare le spalle a quello sconosciuto in cui scorreva lo stesso sangue del suo defunto padre. Kevin ha sofferto per decenni i sensi di colpa legati alla morte di Jack. E' diventato un attore di successo intrappolato nei panni del bello e impossibile. Non ha mai raggiunto l'apice. E' crollato varie volte. Ha perso la donna della sua vita ed è inciampato in un bel rapporto, quello con Madison (moglie dell'autore Dan Fogelman) che gli ha regalato 2 figli ma non un rapporto da favola. La dipendenza dall'alcol, l'eterna indecisione, l'egocentrismo sono stati negli anni rimpiazzati dal cuore, dalla forza di volontà, dalla determinazione nel riconquistare Sophie e nel portare Nicky al tavolo dei Pearson. Rebecca ha vissuto gli ultimi anni nella casa che Jack aveva progettato e Kev ha realizzato. La vita è insensata solo se non ne scorgiamo il senso che essa nasconde nelle cose piccole. Ogni personaggio, in This Is Us ci ha raccontato questo.
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From her womb were born Kate and Kevin, from her determination was born the acceptance of Randall into the family, from her temperament was born a strong family even after Jack's death, from her courage was born a whole existential thread with a new partner, Miguel, from her foresight was born the driving force for her children to try, without fear, to achieve their goals despite the illness of their own beloved mother. Rebecca Pearson left as a heroine, an everyday heroine, like so many women, so many mothers, so many wives. The point I would like to make with respect to what might also seem like rhetorical discourse (the everyday heroism of a good mother) is that the choices Rebecca made were never dictated by an endogenous or exogenous imposition, nor by custom, nor by the flow of predefined events. Rebecca always chose sides, how to guide her children to a bright future, how to accompany and be accompanied by her beloved Jack, how to share the last phase of her life with a new partner. Rebecca never suffered life, but shaped it, even around the traumas that came before her with a disruptive destructive fury.
If Rebecca has managed to be such a beacon, it is because of the unconditional love she gave first to Jack and then to her children, spreading it like a perfume spreads on the skin and in the surroundings, to all those who have been affected by that love, even tangentially. But Rebecca also had the good fortune to be the object of unconditional love herself, the love that Jack witnessed to her until her last breath, until that run to the coffee machine in the hospital, until a bitter lemon ended up in her juicer asking her to pull out a discreet lemonade. Jack and Rebecca's love, born more than half a century before the events of the finale, overwhelmed everyone, overwhelmed us viewers but also overwhelmed all the other protagonists.
That assemblage of ordinarily extraordinary men, women and children we see gathered in the mansion Kevin built and in which Rebecca takes her last breath is a conglomerate of people who would not have existed without that special relationship established between Mr. and Mrs. Pearson decades and decades before.
And so "It's not pointless" as Deja will say to her beloved adoptive father Randall. Everything we do in life simultaneously makes sense and at the same time makes no sense. It's like being grandparents, it's like that unconditional love that William will talk about in a wonderful flashback with Randall and his granddaughters. Being grandparents is wonderful because it allows you to give pure, unconditional love to your granddaughters. But at the same time it is devastating because it comes with the certainty that that relationship will be short-lived, interrupted by the inevitable and natural death of the "grandfather" sooner or later. Life is a whirlwind of senseless things that hide boundless magic. It is important to be ready to grasp its deep meaning. It is like losing your mother and on the same day learning that you are about to become a grandfather. It's like losing a woman you've always loved only to win her back beyond the threshold of 40. It's like saying goodbye to the father of your children only to be told "I love you" more than 10 years after that goodbye. The entire series is riddled with pain, fear, panic, anxiety, and uncertainty. The lives of the main characters are stratospheric, it is true, but let us think about how many burdens on their shoulders they have carried before materializing specific teachings and hopes.
Nicky is a man who lost his brother and his entire family as a result of that bloody war in Vietnam that made him an exile, a hermit, guilty only of saying no to violence. His big brother Jack continued to exist and live without him being able to do anything to see him, hug him, tease him at least one last time. It took the stubbornness of Kev, a child who never grew up and perhaps became a man precisely when he decided not to turn his back on the stranger in whom the same blood as his late father flowed. Kevin suffered decades of guilt related to Jack's death. He became a successful actor trapped in the role of the beautiful and impossible. He never reached the pinnacle. He collapsed several times. He lost the woman of his life and stumbled into a beautiful relationship, that with Madison (wife of author Dan Fogelman) who gave him 2 children but not a fairy tale relationship. Alcohol addiction, eternal indecision, and self-centeredness were over the years replaced by heart, willpower, and determination to win Sophie back and bring Nicky to the Pearson table. Rebecca has lived the last few years in the house that Jack planned and Kev built. Life is meaningless only if we do not see the meaning it hides in the small things. Every character in This Is Us told us this.
Kate experienced her own personal hell in the form of uncontrolled eating disorders. The death of her father and an abusive first boyfriend conditioned her until she was 30. Then Tobey came along and someone really loved her, someone who was not Jack, Rebecca, Randall or Kev. Tobey and Kate experienced a lot and a lot of love they gave each other but then something broke and that slide from which they both had always managed to slide down smoothly, hand in hand and with smiles on their faces, stopped being smooth, smooth and fast. They had to say goodbye to each other. Not without, first, trying. Not without, first, putting everything they could have put into it in terms of patience, perseverance, sacrifice. Kate, little Kate, the helpless and frightened Kate, made a decision that 99% of people would struggle to make even under even worse conditions. That choice, that sour lemon, was the first tile in building a fulfilling and bright future. She too, like Rebecca, will be able to call herself a family woman capable of being the hub of 2 children and 2 men from whom a new branch of the Pearson genealogy will one day be born.
