Cult: The woman who assumes is still feminine: does she have the same stages of digestion as a man?

The coronavirus epidemic has produced a wide variety of quarantine diaries in recent times, one of which stands out for its original voice: extreme humor, sarcastic, ruthless honesty, and its debauchery toast and liberation: the Rumbarumbamm quarantine blog and its author, Ágota Benedek, 34. Let’s start right away with a quote from a blog:

The good whore of Gilead, and Chernobyl and Wuhan for having stomach cramps from them.

Benedek, who also worked as a screenwriter and for an advertising company, started blogging (“I was quarantined like everyone else”) at the suggestion of his psychologist, and he wanted to entertain himself with him. Finally, at the urging of his friends, he made his posts public, which turned out to be quite a lucrative decision on his part.

On the last day 65 of the curfew, the blog was already read at 47,000, while Viktória Petrányi, the producer of Proton Cinema, closed the filming rights of the blog, and then Libri Publishing also noticed the daily entries and put out a book of they.

So far, it’s been a half-year success story that the author himself could hardly believe. “It’s hard for me to understand that something good is happening to me. We can also say that I am prepared for everything around me to disintegrate in an instant, ”he says with a smile, and then it turns out that there is a reason to say so.

On the other hand, it already seems certain that his name will soon be known as a book author rather than as a screenwriter. “There is something bitter about developing a movie for years, at the cost of a lot of sacrifice, commitment and struggle, and then ‘just’ all you do is sit in the macinacid and ‘vomit’ a text about your everyday life. But I have no problem with that, ”says the Nyíregyháza-born artist.

Of course, this “included” text is by no means a hobbyist’s doll practice, despite its flexible structure, the blog feels thoughtful. The whole comedy in the ensemble is sometimes based on very serious and sometimes even tragic life events, the lyrics are dynamic, there is a rhythm in the sequence of entries, jokes sprout.

“The blog is based on my life, the character that speaks in it bounces off me, but it is still a platform that has a fictional space, I am not the one hundred percent voice that speaks in it”, says Benedek about his alter ego .

Fresh, provocative, and crumbling on commercial Gen Y TVs then hooked up to Netflix, you’re probably very familiar with what this alter ego sounds like. The blog, worthy of a diary, is culturally embedded at the time it was written. They fly in the millennials Common basic experiences, cult products of many of our childhoods: Mouth of heartscry, Sex Theirs New York, Bravo magazine, Disney stories and “Sándor Petőfi tattooed on the hearts of Hungarian children” at the elementary school celebrations.

Cockade, black skirt and white blouse, you don’t even know what you’re singing, but you love it! Of course you love me. All the hours are left behind after the third big jump, and you can thank Sándor Petőfi for that! You love it, you love Sándor Petőfi!

It defines not only his childhood, but also his present with series and movie titles stabbed here and there, with important spaces for nightlife in Pest.

Because if you start to worry that once you get paralyzed or your twin brother is fully developed around your neck (maybe even more talented than you, it is true that they will pay him for his work), you still will not get out, I will, but soon you’ll be making it to the kitty tournaments. , mattresses and balls, and you’ll notice that Claire Foy is actually a good actress because, like Crownban (hoho) sits on Queen Elizabeth, so she couldn’t sit for forty-five seconds.

The author of this article is also a member of that generation, so it is not difficult to recognize that Benedict XVI is sensitive, with a certain irony, to all kinds of pathological changes in those born around the turn of the millennium. To softness, to an intense tendency to postpone decisions, to frustration with the null social esteem of intellectual work.

I ask him what he thinks in common with adults in their 30s now. According to Ágota Benedek, “being in this generation feels a bit like being trapped between me and the next generation. If we look at the axis of the procreating career, for example, on the one hand, I have an alarm clock that goes off, which indicates that I am old enough to have a child, but in the meantime, my wishes, goals, as I go In my life, they push this time “

He immediately adds that he is still not considered a typical 30. “I can see in my surroundings that for many people, the period has finally come to an end when they are finally on their feet while their ambitions are very serious. Unfortunately, I did not have a strong safety net in my family, so I soon began not only to ambition, but also to take concrete steps to complete an adult life. I didn’t have time to spend a lot of time figuring myself out. “

After years of high school in Nyíregyháza, she immediately left for England at 18, working as a babysitter or in a Greek restaurant. “When you do physical work for an extended period of time, you organically realize that learning is actually a comfortable thing to do. I also realized that I didn’t want to get stuck in a restaurant with varicose veins until I was 25 years old. “

He returned home, applied for the Hungarian Department at Eötvös Loránd University, and later for the University of Theater and Film. In the end, he did not graduate from any of the universities because, as he puts it, he was “lost”, unable to focus on his studies due to privacy concerns. Life, on the other hand, taught him something else in its cruelly practical way, like a love of movies and writing.

“I felt during college that I needed to quickly acquire some practical knowledge for which I would also receive money. I applied for a paper job, invited the editor at the time, and finally begged to let me write small-form articles for the newspaper. Should have delivered the first small frame material on Saturday night on a spring day. However, a few hours before the deadline, my mom died in a car accident.

I clearly remember calling the editor, I apologize very often for not being able to submit the article because something tragic happened. And this man later told me that “a lot of tragic things happen in life, but that doesn’t change anything in time.” It stayed terrifyingly deep inside me, giving me frontal and lifelong knowledge. Bing! He established an attitude in me that I have maintained ever since.

The blog, the script, the commercials, everything, you can break on Tuesday, on Thursday your right leg will be amputated, and on Saturday your dog will be stabbed in the stomach, anything can happen, it should not affect your professional life. And luckily I can keep that to this day. “

His first film work was by Gábor Reisz He stood out as the production director for his exam film, but soon switched to the creative side. More recently, for example, he wrote a script for a “playwriting mixed with elements of science fiction” directed by Ákos Badics. the Űrpicnic The titled production is already in the tube, but due to the epidemic seizure, its presentation had to be postponed. The story is about the acceptance of otherness and can be briefly summarized as follows: “An overweight and confident space creature arrives on a planet called Earth to save the object of its admiration from destruction, the artist Sarolta Zalatnay. In addition to rescuing Zalatnay, he befriends a suicidal student (played by Lalt Walters) with whom they embark on adventures. “

On a shelf with Bridget Jones

the Űrpicnic the past and the future will be a movie of his own life. He is the producer and scriptwriter of the film format made from the blog, it has not yet been decided whether it will be a film or a series, and it is possible that Ágota Benedek is also the main character. As he himself says, such personal content is only authenticated if you play the main character in it, which is what it’s all about. “It worked for Gábor Reisz (who is a Bad poemsand was also the main character), Lena Dunham (a Chicks creator and protagonist of the series “Phoebe Waller-Bridge” (a Fleabag protagonist, writer and producer). If this is good for the show, I’ll do the same. “

And once he mentions the idols, he tells you what he says about the publisher of the book who put him on the cover along with Bridget Jones, Lena Dunham and Phoebe Waller-Bridge.

“With these women, the publisher offers potential buyers points of reference they know. There is a generation whose members no longer know who Lena Dunham is, but Bridget Jones probably does, who is the drunken woman listening to Celine Dion who kept a diary of her struggles. I happily identify with these women and writers as they are extraordinarily funny characters and intelligent people, ”she says.

Humor was mission 1.0 of Benedict’s lyrics, admits the author. Lower body jokes, which often endure printing ink, frequent insults, and bad language, are not present on their own. Even if the title itself is embarrassing.

“I took it from the Urban Dictionary slang. There is a joke that on an island the natives ask you if you choose death or you can be friendlyt, and everyone chooses the ungabunga. They don’t know that this means raping them to the core, to death. THE Rumbarumbamm a synonym for this. I compared the period of the pandemic to fucking deadly ass, ”she says with a fluttering face as she spins latte in her romantic floral fall dress.

He writes with the same unwavering face in the book about “fart pants” (worn warm-up pants), “shit,” meth adventures, and hormone storms. At one point he details that the operative tribe is alive, and it is possible that Cecília Müller is a vampire, and “Viktor Orbán announces something…”, but a few pages later he inaugurates the adventures of the drunk and transvestite bar.

These words have a liberating effect on readers. “People suddenly had a compulsion in my environment to swear or talk about their digestion. Because I talk to them every day, they easily think that I’m their friend too. “

We could also say that in the book, Ágota Benedek emancipates jokes from the lower part of the body.

It also gives women the right to speak out about such things.

He says.

“At one point in my life, I felt like there was some kind of discrimination because women weren’t allowed to talk about certain things, it’s a swampy ground. The question has always been raised whether even a woman who admits to having the same stages of digestion as a man is female. There is this mystique around women, but I find it ridiculous to lie, say, I go to the bathroom. “

In his experience, men are very disgusted if they indulge in Alpar’s humor, hitherto considered a masculine privilege, or find it particularly attractive. “In the latter case, I think they assume that I have confidence in my femininity to dare to joke about something like that.”