In Briefthere would ultimately be a kind of assumed mediocrity. Recognize your limits, try without believing it too much and not trying to be the best at all costs are all ways for the main character of “tinker“. He tries, fails and then moves on to something else, thereby embodying a form of resilience Faced with the harshness of the world.
Under these conditions, failure is considered normal, as a predictable step or even as an expected rite of passage. By allowing yourself to be ineffective without guilt, the character embodied by Kyan Khojandi offers us another way of existing.
If we identify as much with this antihero, it is because it echoes our imperfections and our existential anxieties, as the essayist reminds us Jean-Laurent Cassely in a recent interview with the magazine the point.
In short, the seasons 1 and 2 of Brief Stage all the qualities of the loser at work: disconnection, incomprehension of codes, poorly placed sincerity, repeated failure. But this orchestration is done with humor, tenderness and kindness. The main character is not pathetic; He is simply human. And it is probably the strength of this series: it gives the floor to the common of the mortals, to the forgotten, to those who succeed a little, not really, if not at all.
*The first name has been changed.
