Humor and event: the counter-actualization of the gay character Gianluca in the series "Everything Calls for Salvation" [Tutto chiede salvezza]

Abstract

In this article, we undertake a Deleuzian theoretical perspective, which places humor on the tracks of the event and observes it as a line of flight that can lead the individual to enjoy in the sense of managing a joyful power, capable of making him find in himself a field of forces that move him towards what that philosopher calls becoming. As a singular human dimension, humor is a line of flight for the creation of other possible territories, based on counter-effectuation, which, in Deleuzian perspective, positions it in a libertarian vision of itself, of an opening to a new mode of existence. The territory is marked by lines of forces (molar, molecular and escape) and we need to observe the movement of these lines in its constitution. In “Tudo Pede Salvação” (2022), an original Italian drama and comedy series, distributed in Brazil by the Netflix streaming platform, through cartography, we can see that the character Gianluca counteracts through the use of humor, from three scenes : the arrival of the father in the psychiatric ward; the clash between Daniel and Gianluca; and, the kiss between Daniel and Gianluca in front of his father. Despite the non-acceptance of the family nucleus, Gianluca manages to make his stay in the hospital positive, resisting, freeing himself from a molar structure – a patriarchal and authoritarian family. It is in humor that Gialunga draws lines of escape that will open up the possibility of building a libertarian gay mode of existence.