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Read Alan Moore to understand Beppe Grillo
Posted: 16/03/2013 05:00
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"All the parasites drown, sex and crimes such as accumulated dirt will submerge them up to the waist ... And the whores and politicians will look up and shout," Save us. "And I whisper," No "."
Absence of irony aside, it sounds like a speech by Grillo. Indeed, this is exactly the standard answer of Beppe Grillo at every possible offer of alliance made to his parliamentary motion. But talking about here is Rorschach with his famous prose broken, that is the character of "Watchmen," Alan Moore comics, perhaps the most well-known author of comics in the world.
Its Elizabethan masks of Guy Fawkes - adopted by Occupy Wall Street, Anonymous, the Indignados, and other groups and protest movements International - do not mention that another of his creation, the anarchist "V" homonymous graphic novel "V for Vendetta. " And so far Moore has never hesitated to give them his blessing.
So I had already made an appointment for an interview with Alan Moore this week. I wanted to ask him what he thought of Beppe Grillo and his Movement. Moreover, the inspiration of the literature of Moore, the same Grillo has always manifested very clearly: the "V" of its founding political event, the Fuck Day - ie the same letter that stands out within the word MoVement capital - in logo electoral five stars is then enclosed in a circle, so that reassembles the character's trademark red blood mooreiano.
Not to mention, to want to be attentive to detail, that the number of its stars, five, in turn, form the Roman numeral V, a symbol in Chinese box that is very familiar to readers of Moore. Now, the analogy between the self-image projected by Grillo, and that of the English masked revolutionary who arouses England from the sleep of a media dictatorship, catches the eye.
Especially today that its representatives enter the Italian Parliament: "Parliament is a symbol, as is the act of destroying it ... are the men who give power to the symbols ... from only a symbol is meaningless, but with quite a number of people behind to blow up a building can change the world, "says V. Echoed by his pupil, Evey: "This country needs something more than a palace. It needs hope."
The proximity - symbolic - between the comic and the futuristic English anarchist, it is absolutely obvious. And 'less obvious what the story of "Watchmen" teaches us ethics policy according to Grillo. In contrast to "V for Vendetta", here the essence of militant grillismo as thought does not condense into a single character, but in the spirit of history itself. What then revolves around the death of a Comedy. In "Watchmen," the deepest convictions of each of the protagonists of the story break against that great cosmic joke that only the Comedian - a dark Captain America reactionary and unscrupulous, with a belated kidney shot in front of a bad top - seems able to understand.
But in the conflict, however, stands out a character, another anarchist this time more distinctly on the right: Rorshach is the Moore-ian version of "The Question", a creature of Steve Ditko (much more
famous for helping to devise Spider-Man) and summa of his devotee of Objectivism
Randiana school. No superpower, then, if not in its motivations. And here is what
that it is difficult to understand who judges usual superficiality stereotipizzata the comic
America.
famous for helping to devise Spider-Man) and summa of his devotee of Objectivism
Randiana school. No superpower, then, if not in its motivations. And here is what
that it is difficult to understand who judges usual superficiality stereotipizzata the comic
America.
What makes Batman - Superman, Spider-Man and all the others - the "superheroes" ... What, above all, makes it readable, compelling (and somehow immedesimabili) their narratives, it is the moral force of character, not physical strength. Not superomistica ethics, as is often tended to misunderstand, but superetica instead of superpowers. And the story works just as his characters are faced with difficult choices in extreme situations. A dilemmas of nature "iperamletica."
Alan Moore does not escape, on the contrary enhances knowingly superheroism this moral.Embrace the Manichaeism implicit in character, and pushes it to its logical extreme. And it does so answer Rorschach, the friend who asks him to shut up to save the world: "No. Not even in the presence of the Apocalypse. No compromise." Which is also what the Comedian Rorschach appreciated.
"They have no right. Nobody. Except the Comedian.'ve Known him since 1966. Strong personality. He does not care to please others. No compromises. Admirable. Among us is the one that has a better idea. On the world. On people. on society and on what happens. things that deep down we all know but are afraid to deal with. too polite to talk about it. He understands. understands how horrible it is humanity and does not hold back. sees the horror of the world and you do not never give up. When a man has seen, can no longer turn our backs pretending it does not exist. Even if someone orders it. do not do this because we allow it. We do this because we have to. Why we are compelled. "
Speaking with my friend and fellow Englishman, I heard him observe keenly, as the story of Italian politics - the election result to date - has been transformed into a medieval morality tale, Faustian, based on the soul of Cricket, and its unavailability to "sell it to the devil." If you succumb to the compromise would play the soul, but above all - in this case - his electorate.
That's why Grillo, Bersani and everyone else, can not and will not be able to continue to respond "spades". As is also true of Rorschach, who in the name of its integrity would leave - leave? - Burn the world. I started writing hinting at an interview canceled by Alan Moore. Now it is not difficult to imagine why. Moreover, the various Occupy movements that the author has supported so far have all stopped in front of the corridors of power.
Here in Italy, however, at the end there are entered. The superetico mooreiano man enters Parliament, and tries to change it (or down?) From the inside. And that even Moore had expected.And 'perhaps for this reason that at the last, the English writer has decided to decline, not knowing whether or not to support this political phenomenon. The rest is one thing to inspire a protest, another potentially inspire a party-in-government. Or maybe it's just the whole of Dr. Frankenstein, the creature who fears that he himself has created.
Stefano Pitrelli Follow on Twitter: www.twitter.com / StefanoPitrelli
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