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| Dando ao velho termo "retardamento" um novo sentido |
“The
central problem in American film comedy for the past 15 years or so — let’s say
from middle-period Sandler through prime Apatow and late ‘Hangover’ — has been
maturity, or, more precisely, its avoidance. In the old days, adulthood was a
fact. Now it’s a vague, unproven theory. Adolescence used to represent
constraint and frustration, to be left behind as quickly as possible. For the
heroes of the New American Comedy, it represents a blissful state of hedonistic
freedom, to be held onto for as long as possible.
How
to stay a child when the world expects otherwise — and how to make the world
love you anyway — has usually been, in these movies, a male predicament. Women
have been sirens or mommies, on hand to inflame the boys’ desires or soothe
their fears. This has begun to change recently, although mainly on television,
where shows like ‘Girls’ and ‘Broad City’ have extended the privileges of
arrested development on a more or less equal-opportunity basis.”
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