I also watched the cult film Team building for no, you cannot be a complete stranger to a social phenomenon which suddenly becomes the mental occupation of a nation. I also recommend it to my friends from the Republic of Moldova, who will find in it additional topics of irritation to us from here! I decided to watch during the active time of the day, fearing that I would be bored and sleepy in the evening, which turned out to be a good decision: this is exactly what happened, because the original bursts of dialogue of the Little One are immersed in a lot of excess and a rather slow rate of change of mind, plus the well-known autochthonous tendency to joke, insist on it and detail the point until the dust settles, so that no one leaves the hall with wrinkles on their foreheads. because he didn’t understand something.

There are a few memorable lines that will make a career in urban folklore, which is a lot. But, as with the much darker uproar surrounding the figure of Mircea Vulcanescu, I fear that some serious questions remain unasked and a place in the long story missed. As I said in the case of the MV, I would show this movie in high school classes (with ***horns here and there) to have the students reflect on an important topic: how come moral nouveau riche and the social views that are sharply criticized both in this film and in Carajale’s plays coincide with the best periods of Romanian history, both political (the sphere that inspired the playwright) and economic (for the moment) development? It’s just a coincidence that when Romanians build something viable, they also immediately generate a majority cultural reaction that haunts the evening comedy what do you practice during the day at work? Because, let’s face it, today in the cinema, as it was 150 years ago in ftheaterthe Wallachian traders are in a hurry to be amused by how they themselves are being caricatured.

How to explain the fact that lush bonjour and shameless and rapid copying of Western models, bordering on the ridiculous, is causing a stir. Team building and which old Caragiale (admittedly on a different intellectual level, but today we are democratized and have a mass culture, don’t we?) is actually the most successful model for the development of Romanian society? How can we explain the fact that the “substanceless forms” attacked by the great conservatives of Carajale or Eminescu, and now, in Manelite fashion, Team buildingin fact, it works and creates a fund quite quickly (it is not guaranteed, but do we have another better strategy?) We have the courage to coldly assess, with the cards on the table, the democratic and entrepreneurial freedom that the large mass of Romanian quarter doctors selfishly pursue own small economic interests was actually a viable path to prosperity last time, so could it be now?

Is it a coincidence that short episodes of democratic capitalism and sharp social self-criticism, as in the late 19th or early 21st century, coincide in Romania with the most authentic moments of social progress and prosperity? It gives us something to think about, that in terms of ideas, then and now, the critical discourse on pashoptism and the rapid alignment with Western criteria and rhetoric prevailed – so fast that at times it took on comical forms – just as the post-Phanariot slums were taking huge steps forward for comfort. , quality of life and education, as stupid as he was? Isn’t it telling that one of the most authentic liberal intellectuals, namely Zeletin, could not get close to the party of the same name, because, although he admitted that he campaigned for the right things, “they smell too much like cheese”?

After all, what could be more mannered in the Romanian culture than to build a Rich Venturiano corporation to have someone to take advantage of, because the risk is zero in the most benign social order: a nascent democracy full of small aliens? In a state based on the ethics and values ​​that the nostalgics of Caragiale’s time or the idealists of today would like, it would be much more dangerous to try to follow a consensus of opinion. We should not ponder more seriously why the real disasters for the country occurred before or after these episodes of “form without substance” when our society followed the “substantial” plans of great social critics of the right or left, critics who included many artists (or content creators, what is his name today) and hit the fence? How is it that most intellectuals and critical artists feel deep discomfort at the public assertion of “ascending materialism” and “lack of education”, newer and corporate, although historical experience teaches us that their higher projects aesthetically and morally are systematically worse and destructive as a result?

I know these questions arise Team building what the film offered; perhaps stylistically it does not stand next to the works of Caragiale. But my main confusion is this: Is there such a big difference between late 19th century early capitalist anti-merchant humor, the central meme of classical Romanian culture, and more recent anti-corporate stand-up? Both generate social consensus, a critical mass of viewers, a good mood and a kind of unrecognized elitist self-realization: if you can laugh, it means that you are something higher than the scum in the movie (or “The Lost Letter”), and therefore, an accomplice of the Creator Opera, even if you work in a multinational company. You certainly saved yourself by overcoming the condition, even if only in your own imagination.

You can’t lose success with a formula that forces every citizen to realize that they are above average (a statistical impossibility) and that a better world exists around the corner if we could all be a little more “authentic”, “anti-materialistic”. Here, Caragiale’s traditionalism is juxtaposed with teenage romantic clichés in which good triumphs over evil as everyone sees the true light through which the Teambuilding heroes are ultimately saved. Essentially, it’s a message about walking despite the banter and cursing at the bus station: ironically, tender substance defies form. Read the whole article and comment on Contributors.ro