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My Brilliant Friend Season-Premiere Recap: Sacrifices
Lenù can’t stop ignoring all of Nino’s sleazy posturing and Lila’s old warnings any longer.
Nino Sarratore, I’d like to say right off the bat, is a textbook case of an esquerdomacho, which is an expression we have in Brazilian Portuguese to describe men who use the political language of the left to manipulate women. • I thought the use of real news footage from the political happenings in Italy during the seventies was very well placed here –– the context of the time period is imperative to Ferrante’s world building, and I loved seeing how the direction of the show tackled that kind of expansion creatively. It’s a great tool: the ringing sound, the way Lenù will cross her arms in front of her chest as she speaks, Nino’s hushed tones, it all comes together to make the telephone an object charged with meaning.
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