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Quella rapida sequenza, a mio avviso, rappresenta la perfetta chiusura del cerchio di This is Us, una poesia in rima ma fatta per immagini, una poesia che toglie il fiato per la sua nitida ed elegante magnificienza. Quel doppio gioco di sguardi, lungo mezzo secolo, rappresenta il cerchio della vita in tutta la sua potenza.
Ed è il ricordo a cui Jack allude quando dice a Rebecca che quella non è la fine. Continueranno a vivere. Non fisicamente, non in altra dimensione ma in un'altra forma, attraverso i ricordi di chi vive e che nelle piccole cose (quante volte le piccole cose sono tornate ad essere importanti in queste ultime puntate) tramanderà per decenni, secoli, per sempre il ricordo delle persone amate.
Jack e Rebecca sono stati 2 esseri speciali, per dirla alla Battiato, che hanno innescato uno tsunami di emozioni che mai si arresterà. Dal frutto del loro amore sono nati 2 figli, più uno adottato dai quali sono nati 7 nipoti e pronipoti stanno per nascere, nel mezzo tanti altri affetti, da Nicky ad Edie, passando per Madison e per Sophie, per Beth e per Tobie e chi più ne ha più ne metta.
ntire.
Quella corsa finisce, lasciando spazio ad altre corse.
Quel treno rallenta ma non si ferma.
I 2 sposi d'America si ritrovano, ed è tutto perfetto.
Ogni cerchio si chiude (è già la seconda volta che lo dico, perdonatemi) e lo fa con una naturalezza disarmante.
The Train si chiudeva con quel reciproco "Ehi" sussurato dai Pearson.
US si apre con un reciproco "Ehi" sussurato dai Pearson, stavolta vivi e vegeti, nel proprio letto, in quell'ultimo sabato, in quell'ultimo "lazy saturday" raccontato dagli autori. Sarà un sabato semplicemente perfetto nella sua quotidianeità. Sarà un sabato di prime rasature e di piccole confessioni, di giochi voluti e giochi mancati, sarà uno dei tanti sabati che genereranno ricordi indelebili nella mente dei bambini ma anche dei genitori. Sarà un sabato normale, un sabato che metaforicamente traccerà una linea insuperabile grazie alle parole della piccola Kate che, da bendata racconterà il suo segreto nell'essere cosi abile al gioco della coda dell'asino.
Prima di mettermi la benda sugli occhi, guardo dove siete tutti voi, che non state mai zitti, e finché so dove siete, so sempre dove sto andando
E' un messaggio che ritroveremo spesso nella vita di Kate, e forse anche nella vita di tutti noi. Muoverci nei meandri dell'esistenza, sbagliando sonoramente, imparando, cadendo, perdendo la bussola ma ritrovandoci sempre grazie al suono delle voci dei nostri cari.
La serie si chiude con quel doppio focus su Randall e quel magistrale congiungimento temporale e tematico fra i 2 padri per antonomasia visti in questo inesauribile show. Prima, però, ci sono stati loro, Rebecca e Jack sul treno, sdraiati e con lo sguardo fisso l'uno sull'altra, con lacrime di gioia e malinconia a scorrere sul viso di Rebecca come su quello di tutti noi.
Occhi innamoratissimi e anime legate da qualcosa di mirabolante quelle dei 2 coniugi Pearson.
Sviluppo Personaggi: 10
Complessità: 9
Originalità: 8
Autorialità: 7,5
Cast: 7,5
Intensità: 10
Trama: 7
Coerenza: 8
Profondità: 10
Impatto sulla serialità contemporanea: 9
Componente Drama: 10
Componente Comedy: 4
Contenuti Violenti: 1
Contenuti Sessuali: 1
Comparto tecnico: 6
Regia: 7
Intrattenimento: 8
Coinvolgimento emotivo: 10
Opening: 2
Soundtrack: 5
Produzione: NBC
Anno di uscita: 2022
Stagione di riferimento: 6
VOTO SERIE: 9
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And then there is Randall, perhaps the true protagonist of the finale and of the entire series (not that there is a single protagonist in a series like This is Us, choral by definition). The writers decided to devote perhaps the highest amount of minutiae of all within the final episode to his character. In addition to the quantity of minutes spent on screen, what is striking is the quality of the moments devoted to him. Besides being present in practically all the highlights of the series finale (except, of course, for the scene on the train where it is Jack and Rebecca who dominate the scene) Randall is allotted the final 2 moments of the series, one sees him in the version of a future grandfather, intent on admiring his sweet Deja, in the very last frame it is instead his version as a child who casts another glance, this time at the idol of his childhood and life, namely his father Jack. Many have questioned the significance of this scene, silent and anticlimactic, far from praise, dialogue and grand proclamations.
Frankly, I found it a wonderful sequence, the meaning of which I try to tell you, at least seen through my specific perspective.
That quick sequence, in my view, represents the perfect closing of the circle of This is Us, a poem in rhyme but done in images, a poem that takes one's breath away by its crisp and elegant magnificence. That double glance, half a century long, represents the circle of life in all its power.
A father, who will become a grandfather, who was a son, a son lost and found by William, a son wanted, chosen and loved by Jack and Rebecca, pauses, on one of the saddest days of his life, to admire his greatest masterpiece. Randall admires Deja, mother-to-be, also a lost child, adopted who was already an adult by Randall himself who chooses her, desires her, raises her as his own or better yet in an effort to put her in the best conditions to shine, those same conditions that Jack and Rebecca, decades earlier, had created for him, through the love, patience, and attention that only a true parent can give. Deja and Randall, Deja as Randall, Randall as Jack. The circle closes never to close.
And here we come to the other final sequence that we will never again forget and that precisely through its simplicity has' managed to amplify the great meaning behind this ending and behind This is Us all.
Jack and Rebecca are on the train. They are both dead. They have found each other again. In another place, unspecified but metaphorical of the afterlife in all its forms. It is more of a place where they find themselves and where they continue to feel alive, loved and above all remembered.
And it is memory that Jack alludes to when he tells Rebecca that that is not the end. They will continue to live. Not physically, not in another dimension but in another form, through the memories of those who live and who in the little things (how many times the little things have become important again in these last episodes) will pass on for decades, centuries, forever the memory of loved ones.
Jack and Rebecca were 2 special beings, as Battiato put it, who triggered a tsunami of emotions that will never stop. From the fruit of their love were born 2 children, plus an adopted one from whom 7 grandchildren were born and great-grandchildren are about to be born, in between so many other affections, from Nicky to Edie, via Madison and Sophie, Beth and Tobie and you name it.
It has been brilliant to place at the center of the last few seasons precisely Rebecca's illness, an illness that most of all tends to put a tremendous strain on those who suffer from it but also, if not especially, on those around them.
Forgetting faces, names, events, moments, the past, the little moments experienced with loved ones, is something devastating.
To be forgotten, even for a moment, must be even more so.
Rebecca's docile and sweet fear on that train is a fear that perhaps accompanies all of us and makes this existence "pointless." It is the fear of being alone, of not existing, of being forgotten, of "ending" forever, of no longer being. Fortunately for her, however, Rebecca on that train finds her sweet, strong, beloved Jack, who embraces her, reassures her, admires "the little scarf" on her brow, makes her feel all the warmth that a woman at the end of the line, that a human being, come to the end of the line, deserves to feel.
TThat ride ends, leaving room for other rides.
That train slows down but doesn't stop.
The 2 newlyweds of America meet again, and everything is perfect.
Every circle comes full circle (it's already the second time I've said it, forgive me) and it does so with a disarming naturalness.
The Train closed with that mutual "Hey" whispered by the Pearsons.
US opens with a reciprocal "Hey" whispered by the Pearsons, this time alive and well, in their own bed, on that last "lazy Saturday" narrated by the authors. It will be a Saturday simply perfect in its everydayness. It will be a Saturday of first shaves and little confessions, of games wanted and games missed, it will be one of many Saturdays that will generate indelible memories in the minds of children but also of parents. It will be an ordinary Saturday, a Saturday that will metaphorically draw an insurmountable line thanks to the words of little Kate who, as a blindfolded girl will tell her secret in being so adept at the game of donkey tail.
Before I put the blindfold on, I look where you all are, who never shut up, and as long as I know where you are, I always know where I am going
It is a message we will often find in Kate's life, and perhaps in the lives of us all. Moving through the twists and turns of existence, making sound mistakes, learning, falling, losing our bearings but always finding ourselves through the sound of the voices of our loved ones.
The series closes with that double focus on Randall and that masterful temporal and thematic conjunction between the 2 quintessential fathers seen in this inexhaustible show. First, though, there was them, Rebecca and Jack on the train, lying and gazing at each other, with tears of joy and melancholy streaming down Rebecca's face as well as all of ours.
Eyes in love and souls linked by something miraculous those of the 2 Pearson spouses.
Souls that find each other.
They look at each other.
They understand each other.
They comfort each other.
They guide each other.
They love each other.
And so the last words spoken in the show are perhaps the 2 most abused words in the history of man, film and TV series. It is the words "I love you" that accompany us on our way out. They take on a whole other flavor, a whole other sound when it is Jack and Rebecca who utter them, in that moment so sad, tragic and yet beautiful.
Jack whispers to Rebecca, "I love you."
Rebecca cries, afraid, but she is not alone.
She responds to that "I love you" with another "I love you."
It is the end of everything. The beginning of everything.
It is This is Us.
It is the Pearsons.
It's Us.
Thank you Rebecca. Thank you Jack. Thank you Kate. Thank you Randall. Thank you Kevin.
Our "I Love You," at least for today, is for all of you.
Character Development: 10
Complexity: 9
Originality: 8
Authorship: 7.5
Cast: 7.5
Intensity: 10
Plot: 7
Consistency: 8
Depth: 10
Impact on contemporary seriality: 9
Drama component: 10
Comedy Component: 4
Violent Content: 1
Sexual Content: 1
Technical Comparison: 6
Direction: 7
Entertainment: 8
Emotional Engagement: 10
Opening: 2
Soundtrack: 5
Production: NBC
Year of release: 2022
Reference season: 6
SERIES VOTE: 9
