{"id":1531,"date":"2023-04-13T12:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2023-09-18T11:12:31","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T18:12:31","slug":"pain-and-growth-and-growing-pains-in-la-vita-bugiardi-degli-adulti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2023\/04\/13\/pain-and-growth-and-growing-pains-in-la-vita-bugiardi-degli-adulti\/","title":{"rendered":"Pain and Growth and Growing Pains in La vita bugiardi degli adulti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Lately I listen almost exclusively to <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/artist\/6FXMGgJwohJLUSr5nVlf9X?si=zISuY8T5TtWAxQpUDs0yvg\">Massive Attack<\/a>. This is partly because they\u2019re a great band and I love their music, but I\u2019d be lying if it wasn\u2019t also largely out of a burning desire to embody <em>some<\/em> of the coolness radiated by Giovanna, also known as Giov\u00e0 or Giannina, the brooding and complex heroine of <em>La vita bugiardi degli adulti <\/em>(<em>The Lying Lives of Adults)<\/em>, a recent Netflix interpretation of Elena Ferrante\u2019s novel of the same name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/staticfanpage.akamaized.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2023\/01\/LVBDA_101_Unit_02927RC-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Giordana Marengo as Giovanna in <em>La vita bugiardi degli adulti<\/em> on Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set in Naples in the 1990s, the short series follows 15-year-old Giovanna as she navigates the disorienting and upsetting demystifying process of entering the world of adults. Desperate to love and be loved and at the same time suspended in a formidable web of lies weaved by those she trusted most, Giov\u00e0 finds herself looking to others (most notably her aunt Vittoria) in search of herself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tutto.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/La-vita-bugiarda-degli-adulti.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Giordana Marengo and Valeria Golino as Giovanna and her Aunt Vittoria in <em>The Lying Lives of Adults<\/em> on Netflix<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What I find particularly interesting about this series from a linguistic point of view is the heavily charged presence of Neapolitan dialect as a social marker. While its use within the context of the series functions on a surface level as a marker of the working class, this signification is complicated by the simultaneous mystification of and alienation from these working class communities by upper middle class &#8220;communist&#8221; intellectuals (like Gioiv\u00e0&#8217;s parents). In this way, Giov\u00e0&#8217;s relationship with her aunt becomes a difficult reckoning of her own identity to which the use of dialect is incredibly important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tvserial.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/la-vita-bugiarda-degli-adulti-scena-rossella-gamba-giordana-marengo-credits-eduardo-castaldo-netflix.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lately I listen almost exclusively to Massive Attack. This is partly because they\u2019re a great band and I love their music, but I\u2019d be lying if it wasn\u2019t also largely out of a burning desire to embody some of the coolness radiated by Giovanna, also known as Giov\u00e0 or Giannina, the brooding and complex heroine &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/2023\/04\/13\/pain-and-growth-and-growing-pains-in-la-vita-bugiardi-degli-adulti\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pain and Growth and Growing Pains in La vita bugiardi degli adulti&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2648,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-other-langs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2648"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1584,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions\/1584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/langlabbies\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}