The authenticity of José Pinto can not be manufactured | TV
The duel for the death of José Pinto, the contestant of Boom! and of To know and to winIt has been a great little catharsis that has reminded us that television is made by people and not just by characters. We live in a world where we all interpret a foreign text. Not only on the screen, with politicians who repeat slogans and arguments (sic) and presenters who read the teleprompter, but in any aspect of life: employees who say what their bosses expect them to say, bosses who say what they think will be done by more bosses, teachers with pedagogical indoctrination, couples who follow psychological advice to work on the relationship, parents who say terrible phrases for your own sake and even columnists who give rhetorical detours to take the reader to orchards where they would never enter by their own feet. How many people do we know who only speak with phrases and slang learned in a university master's degree? How much chatter we endure throughout the day without listening or uttering a single word spontaneous or out of tune, and we appreciate the rare moments when that word bursts and breaks the ceremonies and protocols that suffocate us as ties.
José Pinto spoke without a script. He was a contestant, they did not write the sentences to him. And the public knew it, because you can not pretend for so many months to be something that you're not (you can pretend an afternoon, but not even a whole afternoon). Seduced the audience without ten writers thinking a seduction strategy. He simply stood in front of the camera and was himself. For that reason, although the relation that the public had with him was very similar to the one that the readers have with the personages of the great novels that do not want that they finish, their death has been mourned like the one of a friend. No character, no product left the head of anyone and interpreted by the body of another, can replace a spontaneous and direct person. José Pinto could not be manufactured. That is why it is irreplaceable.
