Matteo ranty thing please?
Hi anon 🍝 Okay, so! Matteo. For as much as I do like Matteo and I think he’s a great character and a great addition to the wider Skam universe, I also never had this instantaneous love at first sight that many Matteo fans had.Â
Like, I remember when the first Druck clip dropped and people were going WILD over this sleepy eyed stoner who all but sat on Jonas’ lap. I feel like, out of the first four Isak remakes (Lucas L, Martino, Shay and Matteo himself), people wanted his season the most because of that clip alone.Â
I remember one person who said that Matteo just looked like a Skam character, in the sense that as soon as he made his appearance they could perfectly imagine him at Nissen and in the world of Skam (as in the og). And I think there’s some of that, and also a certain je ne sais quoi about him, like Michelangelo Fortuzzi should be playing a whole roster of fragile young men who died too soon. (This was Leonardo di Caprio’s whole career until he grew out of those roles btw! I know Michi just LOVES Leo.)
For me personally, what I like about Matteo is that I think, while Druck’s writing is rather uneven, he lucked out and got the best character arc. You more or less can see how his relatively happy go lucky Jonas follower fell into a personal crisis and just stopped taking care of himself (physically and emotionally). And then he falls in love and he doesn’t get over his crisis FOR love, but rather feeling things strongly again, feeling GOOD about something or someone, makes him realize just how far gone he really was. And, by the end, he hasn’t figured things out yet, but he’s a lot happier. I can relate a lot to his not knowing what he wants to do, but not saying no to anything, giving things a chance: going on a hitchhiking trip, (making an attempt at) renovation, helping out with David’s movie, reconnecting with his mom and so on.Â
I also really like how deeply Matteo feels for David. My favorite thing about the scene where Matteo comes out to Jonas is that Jonas keeps trying to lighten the mood with jokes, but Matteo is like, “dude, you just don’t understand... how much I care for this guy, it’s all I can think about.” And of course Jonas takes a while to get it, because it’s just so unlikely, no? Here’s this scruffy guy who doesn’t seem to have any zest for life, his insta pic is literally him making a :6 face, his room has like two pics and a floating shelf as decoration, a memelord and a gamer, but when he talks about David it’s like... You get the feeling he’d be writing poetry if he knew how to go about it. I genuinely don’t get people who think the season didn’t establish why or how Matteo loves David.
I think David and Matteo are really well-matched, and they both bring out each other’s sillier side. I know Matteo is probably seen as the sillier of the two, but somehow, I feel like having this certainty that David gets him on a spiritual level, makes Matteo more confident and more likely to be a little shit. Like just knowing David is in his corner regarding Stefan, makes Matteo more likely to fuck with Stefan, for instance. In other words, rather than keeping Matteo on a leash, David enables Matteo, because David finds Matteo’s antics hilarious and great (even when he grumbles and pretends to be put off).Â
On a less pòsitive note, I’ll say that Matteo’s internalized homophobia arc should’ve been written better (please stans of other remakes, do NOT take this as a compliment of how your fav remake wrote YOUR fav’s internalized homophobia arc because Matteo and Cris handled it the best all things considered lmaooo) and I really think the anxiety attack and sensory issues should’ve led to at the very least agreeing to see a therapist and get a diagnosis. But those are my major Matteo qualms, overall he’s one of the best Skams characters, and I like how specific he is. Imo a lot of Skams mains are a bit generic in order to maximize the amount of viewers who can relate to them, but Matteo is specific even at the cost of having plenty of viewers not relate to him or get him.Â
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