Simone Marchetti, the editorial: imbalance

This editorial by Simone Marchetti is published in number 36 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until September 2, 2025.

«At the first theater course they told me to put me on one leg: things happened there, not when we were straight. The imbalance must be sought. Because the imbalance is more interesting ». I want to start the first issue of Vanity Fair of September (after the summer months, VF He returns to newsstands weekly) with the provocative words of Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, our cover star and interpreter of Dusefilm that will be in competition at the new Venice Film Festival.
The concept of imbalance of which Bruni Tedeschi speaks is not only a strategy of the actors to better question and enter the lives of others but, in my opinion, also a valid attitude to understand many spiny issues that the end of 2025 will ask us to face.
In the next pages, therefore, we wanted to go into our editorialists and with our journalists in the most difficult nodes of contemporaneity, topics that, in fact, create in themselves an imbalance.
I start from Daria Bignardi, who faces the tragedy in place of Gaza, telling the expedition Global Sumud Flotilla, an initiative that we will follow in the next few days. We then bring you with Stefano Feltri, to better understand the exit of Europe from his role of influence, as well summarized in Mario Draghi’s speech at the recent Rimini meeting. We will continue with the risks of social media and the Assai present Patriarchate (in spite of those who believe it non -existent) in the chats of the Facebook group “My wife” and we will try, in the analysis of Pino Corrias, to explain what the closure of the Leoncavallo social center really means in Milan.
In addition to the actual events, our editorialists try to go into the future consequences and in the less evident implications of this news to highlight all the reversals of opinion, propaganda and knowledge that serve, in fact, to put us in a situation of imbalance and therefore of greater awareness.
Obviously, you will also find lightness and entertainment plus a large part dedicated to the best of the new Venice Film Festival. In this regard, I want to report two things. An interview ad
Alberto Barberaartistic director of the Festival, in which not only the most anticipated titles are highlighted but above all the films that have changed his life (I recommend you see them or see them again on the various online platforms). And, again, an exclusive: the first interview a Giulio Bertellidirector at the debut with the feature film Agona visionary work that reasoned on one side that is not celebrated of sport, failure.
Also in this case, the imbalance becomes the best lens through which to read not only the most difficult experiences but also the most uncomfortable news. A fundamental attitude to acquire greater awareness and above all more knowledge.

Simone Marchetti

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