"Se avessi un segreto non lo rivelerei a nessuno, neanche a me stesso. Non bisogna mai lasciare traccia. " Autore: Giulio Andreotti - tratto dal film Il Divo-
Lei invece non ha potuto fare a meno di dirmelo, rivelare ciò che non si dovrebbe e farlo addirittura davanti ad una telecamera con luci accecanti che delineavano chiaroscuri e ombre atti a nascondere la sua vera identità.
Ho rivisto Michelle, la ragazza a cui bastava mettere il rossetto rosso e i tacchi a splillo per diventare Barbarella, una escort di lusso.
Davanti ad un caffè all'aperto, in una Londra innondata di sole e di gente che chiassosamente camminava lungo le strade di Oxford Circus ho assistito inerte alla cronaca della sua vita. Un esistenza consumata all'interno di lussosi hotel, brindisi con champagne francesi posti in elegantissimi calici bordati in oro e lunzola di seta dove tutto viene consumato nell'apatia totale dei sentimenti.
Nessuno delle persone che le sono vicine sa della sua doppia vita, ma allora perchè urlare il proprio lato oscuro al mondo in una intervista. Questo mio dubbio è stato ben intuito da Michelle la quale senza che io chiedessi nulla, ha soffermato il suo sguardo su di me e dopo un pò mi ha detto: "Nessuno a parte te sa chi sia io veramente. Dietro la telecamera c'era Barbarella una ragazza sfrontata e cinica. Fare quell'intervista è' stato come convincermi che lei esistesse davvero. Lei è la macchia d'inchiostro sul vestito bianco di Michelle, il mio alter ego deviato e la mia vanità perversa".
Tutto poi è stato inghiottito in discorsi apparentemente normali. Intanto il sole tramontava e il cellulare di Michelle iniziava a squillare. Di lì a poco lei sarebbe nuovamente scomparsa e dalle ceneri della notte precedente sarebbe rinata Barbarella.
Tornado a casa mi sono chiesta ripetutamente perchè proprio io ho dovuto conoscere entrambe?
English version

"If I had a secret I would not reveal it to anybody, even to myself. It never needs to leave trace." Author: Giulio Andreotti - from the movie Il Divo -
She has not been able to hide it to me, even more she reveled what it wouldn't be tell to anybody in front of my camera. When I interviewed her I used only lights which made shadows in order to protect her identity.
I saw Michelle today. She is the girl who with red lipstick and stiletto becomes Barbarella: an escort.
Seating in front of a cup of coffee, in a day full of sun and people that noisily walked along Oxford Circus's street, I listened to her lifetime's story once again. An existence making up inside luxury hotels, toasting with French champagne pour it in elegant wine glasses hemmed in gold and silk sheet where all get through in a total absence of feeling.
Nobody who she cares about knows about her double life, but I was wondering why she wanted to tell me her dark side?. Moreover why she wanted to be interviewed for my tv assigment? Even though I didn't ask those questions, she sensed them. She looked at me and after a while she said: "Apart from you no one else really knows me. Behind your camera there were only Barbarella, a cheeky and cynic girl. When you interviewed me I realized that she exists. She is the ink blot in Michelle's white dress, my deviated alter ego and my perverse vanity. "
After that, our chats changed topic. In the meanwhile the sun began to go down and Michelle mobile started to ring. Shortly after she would have disappeared again and from last night ashes Barbarella would be reborn.
On my way home I wondered why I had to meet both of them?
She has not been able to hide it to me, even more she reveled what it wouldn't be tell to anybody in front of my camera. When I interviewed her I used only lights which made shadows in order to protect her identity.
I saw Michelle today. She is the girl who with red lipstick and stiletto becomes Barbarella: an escort.
Seating in front of a cup of coffee, in a day full of sun and people that noisily walked along Oxford Circus's street, I listened to her lifetime's story once again. An existence making up inside luxury hotels, toasting with French champagne pour it in elegant wine glasses hemmed in gold and silk sheet where all get through in a total absence of feeling.
Nobody who she cares about knows about her double life, but I was wondering why she wanted to tell me her dark side?. Moreover why she wanted to be interviewed for my tv assigment? Even though I didn't ask those questions, she sensed them. She looked at me and after a while she said: "Apart from you no one else really knows me. Behind your camera there were only Barbarella, a cheeky and cynic girl. When you interviewed me I realized that she exists. She is the ink blot in Michelle's white dress, my deviated alter ego and my perverse vanity. "
After that, our chats changed topic. In the meanwhile the sun began to go down and Michelle mobile started to ring. Shortly after she would have disappeared again and from last night ashes Barbarella would be reborn.
On my way home I wondered why I had to meet both of them?











