There Venice Film Festival It has become the new exceptional stage for Pro Pal, especially our local ones. The times when all attention was directed to climate change seem to be distant: now the new Fashion is to take sides in favor of Palestine. One might ask how many of those who today do the proclamations and sign the appeals really know what the Arab-Israeli question is and those who do it only for mere. engagement. But better not to ask these questions, because the answers could disappoint many on the real interest of these characters towards social issues.
The respectability Widespread in the world of entertainment requires to take sides on the part that, at a given moment, seems to be the “right” one, the one that must be chasing to continue to be part of the “circol”. The result is a series of Monocorte statementswithout a real diversity of thought. It is not more than a debate, but an alignment to a single narrative, to the detriment of the complexity and shades that can only exist where there is a real interest. This apparent conformism not only empties the protest of meaning, but also contributes to creating a simplistic narrative of a conflict that has never had e will never have only one truth. In this way, the cry of pain of a people He risks becoming nothing more than the background of a photo shoot for a gossip magazine. During the Pro Pal event that was held in Venice on Saturday, also participated by some artists, some of them even claimed the request to exclude actors considered too close to Israel from the exhibition as Gal Gadot and Gerarld Butler: an all -Italian shame that well represents the historical moment.
This is no longer a debate, if it has ever been, but a aut aut. If you are not with us, you are out. Of course, Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler do not need the Venice showcase to let the world know that they exist and that have a talent in their work, which cannot say all those who have practiced less convincing and useful activism in the last few days. It is the most evident manifestation of a dogmatism that does not admit replicas, anintolerance who masks himself as progressiveness. Those who make themselves the spokesperson for these instances seems not to understand that a free art cannot survive if a unique thought is imposed on it. What should be a place of cultural exchange and comparison is transformed into a theater of ideological positions extremist, where dissent is first labeled and then excluded.
In this context, the figures of artists and intellectuals, who once were points of reference for open -mindedness, are reduced to simple megaphones of an imposed narrative, losing their credibility and their role as mediators. And it’s no longer art.