Also dubbed, on Amazon Prime Video, the series starring an African American family victim of discrimination, but also of paranormal phenomena
Finally it also arrives dubbed, on Amazon Prime Video, «Loro» (Them), a beautiful series that tells the endless travails of the Emories, an African American family who, in the 1950s of the great migration from the racist South, moved from North Carolina to Los Angeles. She is a teacher, he is a war veteran engineer, two little girls: but real estate speculation, cynical like few others, convinces them to rent a villa in the suburban neighborhood of Compton inhabited exclusively by racist white people, self-confident, exclusive career couples, crazy husbands , ladies with varnished nails who find themselves gossiping or playing cards while listening to the song of «The world belongs to women», it’s a woman world…. (not in the feminist sense, the opposite).
It is 1953 and every day life becomes more and more difficult, even at work, where every minute of tolerance has to be earned. The clan of “good” ladies organizes terrifying teasing and threats, does everything to persuade the newcomers to move to a “black ghetto” and the tension becomes unbearable. Not only. The wildcard of the series conceived by Lena Waithe and written by Little Marvin, for now one season but the others will arrive, is that it also mixes a paranormal side with the social controversy which brings history closer to a horror with presence in the house and in the cellar of demonic beings who push the new guests to the worst, as if the perfidy of the humans who come to set the house on fire were not enough.
Good and scared the two protagonists, Deborah Ayarinde and Ashley Thomas, in fighting on the one hand the terrestrial malignancies and on the other the otherworldly ones that threaten to persecute them by acting on the worst instincts. The title says it all: us and them, discover what makes us different. But then the story also takes other paths, the Emories meet African American friends, the most wicked blonde, Betty Wendell (Allyson Pill) comedy type cinemascope de luxe color of those years of long and shiny cars and plastic lives, is kidnapped and hidden in a bunker by a sex maniac and it’s easy to blame the newcomers.
For now there are ten episodes and the dramatic development follows a line that crosses horror without forgetting the superhuman perfidy of this land: the strength of identification is high, as is the anger and helplessness that we feel in attending a show that unfortunately we know to have taken place in these terms, apart from the paranormality. But then it will be understood where these monsters who terrorize the family, including children, also come from: there is a past, the little Chester disappeared and killed in a sack, who knocks on the door and demands payment in cash for guilt, regrets & remorse. The American dream has been soiled forever. Far too full of twists and turns, “Them” (nothing to do with Sorrentino’s film) is an excellent product, topical even if it speaks of the mid-50s, the worst years for blacks, awaiting Kennedy’s reforms .
And well represented i whites sure of their habits and their ideas, the perfect housewives always with a cocktail in hand, bell skirts, lipstick, red nail polish and lacquer on the head, to cover a visceral hatred towards the different that has no reason. It is the scenography of an idyll that will break apart and devastate illusions in the following decade: to understand it we must go back to the civil war of 1861, so well told by the great American poet of the “Leaves of Grass” Walt Whitman. The step from normal to paranormalthe petty bourgeois alienation of terraced houses is justified in the folly of this uncritical racism: deformed faces, wandering camera movements, the world seen from the lens with no center of gravity that speaks to us of ghosts that are, made up otherwise, still among us.
July 28, 2021 (change July 28, 2021 | 00:01)
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