понедельник, 13 февраля 2017
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When I understood that SKAM was going to address young homosexuality in season 3, I called the entertainment department at NRK and said ”you can’t do this without me” I know this group of people well, and I find that media often has a tendency of portraying gay people in a corny and stereotypical way, we don’t deserve it.
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The answer I got was: ”Cool. When can we meet?” (and was invited to talk to the creator Julie Andem.) In these conversation I came with contributions to which difficult emotions young people experience in connection to coming out. And the doubt about what and who you are, the sadness, the angst, the disgust and the shame that may follow it.
Shame was especially important for me to talk to [Julie Andem] about, because it often appears as an invisible, inaccessible and subconscious emotion. It may take a long time to identify that the discomfort you feel is shame, and I wished them to portray this in believable way.
I would say the scene where Isak comes out to Eskild is especially important. Here Isak experience a double form of shame - he is ashamed of being gay, and he is ashamed because he inflicts more shame on Eskild and other gay people. It’s important to specify that the shame he feels because he’s gay is painful and damaging, but the shame he feels because he infringes Eskild is right, healthy and with potential for development. It isn’t a goal to be shameless. because then we aren’t good people.
SKAM has managed to create debate, be informative and be educational with scenes like the one mentioned earlier. And especially the portrayal of the main character Isak - as an unique, but more “normal” gay boy, without the stereotypical traits media often show. I addressed this in my conversations with Andem. I presented experiences from many young gays, who doubt who they are, because they don’t have non-stereotypical role models. It’s important to present gay people as a group of people just as diverse as others. Media’s stereotype becomes a part of a simplification, that creates distance and alienates gay youth.
Good art and a good view on humanity, like SKAM portrays, is necessary for society to evolve, and it’s this openness that gives safety.
Ultimately it’s about how society reacts to humanistic values and human rights, and how it takes care of their minorities and their rights. SKAM contributes as a powerful voice in this important but vulnerable project.
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