While I looked at American Murder: the Gabby Petito case I marked some sentences that, through the mouth of the interviewees, seemed interesting to me; A sort of litmus test of our time. The first reads something like: “The happiest ones on social media, they have the darkest skeletons in the closet”; A second says that “people want to see a couple in love that enjoys traveling; He doesn’t want to see the details of the trip »; A third (and fourth, and fifth) has to do instead with the fact that “she at that point was no longer well” and that “it was understood that there was something wrong”, while he “was kind, but had a dark side”. If you all seem to you a deja-vù, I have good news: you are on the right frequency (and you have already understood where we will parry).
She was called Gabrielle Venora Petitobut everyone called her Cage. As a child he was a lively child, who was never stopped and loved to draw; As big, a girl full of enthusiasm and resourcefulness, who had the great desire to live a life on the road. He instead was Brian Laundriea boy who seemed ten years older than his sixteen years in high school, played the guitar and did not hide his love for the environment. Together, Gabby and Brian represented the typical couple of friendly who in a couple of years turns into the boyfriend couple (and at the beginning very in love), with her who in 2019 makes the suitcases and moved to Florida by his family, because starting to always stay together is the first step of a wider project: the one who soon sees them buy them van (she) and start making a few jobs (always her), to earn money that allow them to live a life on their travels, in the nature. Just as they have always desired both. And even if at this point Gabby wishes to stay connected with the world with a vlog and a Instagram profile That you tell about their experiences, while Brian seems to want to demotivate it (“You will never do so”, semi-city).
But since as we know this is not a happy ending story, and that often the happiness shown on social networks does not correspond to a real tranquility – remember the skeletons in the closet? -, here through Netflix’s docu-series we discover that for each photo posted by Gabby on its Instagram profile-which, among other things, is still active-, corresponds to a limitation by Brian; For each wonderful landscape visited, a emotional blackmail that brings Gabby to start believing that there is something that does not go to that relationship, without however being able to get out of it and, indeed, by leaning all the faults; For every message of excuses – for the delay to an appointment or the cancellation of an exit – exchanged with her friend Rose Davis, an ever greater awareness that Gabby suffers from Affective dependence by Brian, and that Brian is the manipulator who keeps gabby in check. Meanwhile, in July 2021 their journey and their new life began seriously moving between the Colorado and the Utah, and watch the videos of Gabby who tries the camera and the drone, then cries, then admits that he does not succeed, then tries again, then smiles, then he is so beautiful, really breaks the heart. Until things fall, and the message of September 1st by Gabby’s mother to ask if everything is ok, has no reply. And they will not even have the next. The last post of Gabby Petito on his Instagram profile is dated 26 August 2021.
Gabby will be found dead after in the spread of the Creek spread, in Wyoming, after the entire nation, the media, had been interested in chance and had activated the research not only of the girl, but also of Brian. That is, of the boyfriend and (at the beginning only presumed) killer who had made himself unavailable, and that on the day of thehomocide – As he will find out – he had started what he looked like an escape, also covered by a mother who would have done everything for his son, even help him bury a corpse – Spoiler: he won’t do it, but he writes it in a letter. With the discovery of Brian’s remains, the story closes definitively, and we bring home the umpteenth lesson of life (or rather, of death) that leaves us bitter in the mouth and the desire to talk and confront each other, and make sure that affective education is a subject to study at school. That it is even just to save an extra life.
Look today American Murder: the Gabby Petito case It is not easy: there is too much real material available, too many videos shot by Gabby and too many photos on social media that remove that suspension from reality Which comes, albeit without us really realize it, from television. And in fact at the time the American media unwatches a lot in the affair, because it storytelling To be offered to the populace was perfect, so touching and above all so adherent to reality: there was Dream of two young people to give up everything for a lifetime outside the box – the famous plan B that the newspapers still propose us as a winner -,, A missing girla possible homocidea man on the run and a family in some way complicit, a flood of content to be used at will. But above all there was and there is still a story that also speaks of the problems of our times, albeit taking on different declinations, such as that of the so -called White Privilege – according to which greater importance is given to the life of a white person, compared to that of one with black skin -,, in the States; or that of patriarchate – that with the most current affair of Giulia Cecchettin has taken even more meaning -, in our part.
Finally, with the killing of Petito Gabby by boyfriend Brian Laundrie, the question of the Deforming mirror of social mediawhich can be summarized in the famous saying that here it says “all that glitters is not gold”. And behind the smile of a girl who photographs herself in a splendid place, or next to the man who seems, yes, it seems to love it, there can be everything but the happiness we read from outside. But how was that sentence? «People want to see a couple in love that enjoys traveling; He doesn’t want to see the details of the trip “. It happened four years ago, but apparently we haven’t understood it yet.
Source: Vanity Fair
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