“Win or serve?” He reality It is full of inconsistencies, absurd situations and no reference to the period, except for the costumes of the participants, obviously quite whimsical. They distorted and wasted a unique opportunity to illustrate a historical period that is essential to understand political and social events today as well.
José Luis Córdova. Journalist. “The century”. Santiago. 5/9/2024. We would have had to congratulate Channel 13 if the reality show “Win or serve?” would have enlightened the audience about the time that the program tries to reproduce in terms of customs, customs, vices and virtues of the people in the midst of the Creole feudalism of the large estates, before the peasant unionization and the agrarian reform during the subsequent governments of Presidents Frei and Allende.
On the contrary, the controversial setting is full of contemporary truisms, various inaccuracies and omissions about the era to which it is intended to refer in the dramaturgy of the entertainment space that only contributes to confusion and historical ignorance.
If we are talking about 200 years ago, we must go back to the year 1824, that is, after the abdication of the supreme director, General Bernardo O’Higgins, then discredited and harassed by the right, towards a period of anarchy that followed until the civil war. and the conservative victory that left General Ramón Freire in command of the nation.
He reality It is full of inconsistencies, absurd situations and no reference to the period, except for the clothing of the participants, evidently quite whimsical and annoying to move around in a modern house on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, with bedrooms, kitchens and bathrooms that would have desired by our great-grandmothers and great-great-grandfathers, today with electricity, gas, showers and hot water, among other comforts.
Modern historians have vindicated that period of the last century by analyzing with an objective view the succession of governments, constitutions and military riots of that time. It was about the search for a new political order and the construction of a republican State. Does anything sound similar to you?
At that time, General Freire, more interested in the conquest of Chiloé – the last stronghold of the Spanish colonizers – left the drafting of the so-called Moralist Constitution of 1823 in the exclusive hands of Congress, while the majority of the country’s regions clamored for a federalist government system, in the Argentine style.
In the midst of widespread discontent, Freire resigned and General Manuel Blanco Encalada assumed command, the first that history records with the official title of President of the Republic, who also resigned due to the consequent abandonment of the federalist system that led to the height of the liberalism.
The dispute followed that would trigger the civil war between 1829 and 1830, favorable to the conservative forces that, after the treaty of Lircay, brought General José Joaquín Prieto to power, supported by Diego Portales, who laid the foundations of an authoritarian and outside regime. assassinated by his adversaries in 1937, after declaring war on the Peru-Bolivian Confederation, which unleashed a military uprising that cost him his life. Probably one of the first political crimes in our country.
Meanwhile, Mariano Egaña and Manuel José Gandarillas wrote the Constitution commissioned by Prieto and which governed the destinies of the country for 92 years, until September 1925. Do not forget that it governed us until the Magna Carta dictated by Jaime Guzmán in 1980, imposed by blood and blood. fire by the Pinochet military.
None of this is even hinted at in the period of the lives and childhood competencies of the participants in the reality show from Channel 13 – in the supposed framework of 200 years ago. The “patrons” and “servants” or poets? They move in an enviable “social mobility” through a kind of debatable “meritocracy” – which has never occurred in the history of Chile – and they do less to mark the pretexts, environments and conditions in which the poorly portrayed life of that time unfolds before the cameras.
References to choreography or fashion or costumes (as false as they are useless) are not justified and the only thing that is interesting is the competition of strength and resistance, the romances and authentic or feigned disputes between the participants, ignorant of the story and its consequences. Like other examples of the genre, fights, rudeness, discomfort and incivility occur between men and women, in the midst of supposed love affairs and covert sexual encounters.
No one explains why this historical period was chosen, rich in lessons for the present turbulent time, on the eve of necessary real changes in the political system and when two constitutional projects have also failed. Of course, the events shown on camera do not even remotely reflect the social crisis and only caricature the class struggle, the conflictive and everlasting relationship between rich and poor and between men and women.
In it reality Futile conflicts, the exaggerated tone of debates, and bitterness over false or less than credible powers are exacerbated. Everything seems sufficiently planned from production. It is also possible to see that the “events” that occurred on camera were sufficiently planned and recorded prior to their transmission on the channel.
The writers of “To Win or Serve?” They distorted and wasted a unique opportunity to illustrate a historical period that is essential to understand the political and social events of our country today and to reflect behind the cameras. He show must continue. Once again the history, culture and politics of our country are ignored on television. A real waste.
2024-05-27 22:17:35
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