The writer Isabela Figueiredo
“They look like family members from home.” The writer generated a wave of indignation on social media after criticizing the RTP program, which she considers to be a format with “zero cultural value” and which “is no longer justified”. He reacted to the criticism by considering that “your problem is not being able to read and interpret”.
The writer Isabela Figueiredowinner of the Urbano Tavares Rodrigues Prize, spares no criticism of the program “The Right Price”, broadcast more than two decades ago on RTP1, but which he considers “is no longer justified”.
In an opinion article published in , with the title “My normal utopias”, the author harshly criticizes the program presented by Fernando Mendeswhich has maintained high audience levels for 20 years.
“The cultural value is null” considers the author of the book A Gorda, who asks: “why are we finance nullity with our taxes?”.
In her article, Isabela Figueiredo says that she usually sits on the sofa at the end of the afternoon with the computer and that Turn on the television, but turn off the sound. “I see, but I hear nothing. I can’t take the bullshit. I have supported ‘Price is Right’ for over 20 years. It was always bad.”
“The authenticity of the public is saved“, says the award-winning writer. “Real Portuguese. They look like family members from homewhich we visited at Christmas. Good people who kill their pigs when the right time of year arrives”, he adds.
“The ‘Right Price’ is no longer justified. Stopped in time“, considers the author, who suggests that the public station replace the competition with “a music and theater to entertain before dinner”.
The writer’s opinions quickly caused uproar on social media, where numerous users accused her of “elitism” and “contempt for the people”and to be the expression of “opinion of the Bacchus elite.
The writer Pedro Chagas Freitas was one of the first to react, with a post on Facebook calling for tolerance and cultural diversity.
“I’m from the country. I love Isabela Figueiredo’s books. I admire Price is Right. I go to the theater. I go to Senhor de Matosinhos. I read Dostoevsky, and Pasternak, and Yourcenar, and Sartre, and Camus. I read Maria, and Nova Gente, and TV 7 Dias. I watch football. I listen to classical music. I eat bread with chorizo. I watch Big Brother. I love Herberto Helder”, writes the writer.
“We are not all one thing. I’m from the country, yes. From Monte Largo, Azurém, Guimarães. It was there that I learned, every day, that great thoughts can come from a laugh, that beauty can smell like chorizothe wet earth. THE lucidity is not for an elite; It belongs to those who have the courage to bear the wound”, concludes Pedro Chagas Freitas.
Also on Facebook, Joana Amaral Dias says that “there are those who think so cultured that he despises the people. The candidate for President of the Republic accuses the writer of “sad snobbery of those who think that the people are something lesser”, and describes Fernando Mendes’ program as “the real Portugal, of laughter, sharing and authenticity”.
The singer Né Ladeiras also shared the writer’s text on social media, stating that this “turns popular taste into tax guiltl” and denounces “the discomfort of an elite that looks at the people with a mixture of tenderness and shame”.
According to Né Ladeiras, “the target of the chronicle is not The Price is Rightit is the country that sees it.
A country that it is still recognized in cheeses and sausages, in applauding audiences, in awards that are modest symbols of joy”.
“There is in this a noisy humanity that bothers the authorperhaps because remembers the land he came from and the one he no longer wants to return to“, concludes the Portuguese singer.
Not everyone disagrees with the writer and Portuguese journalist, who was born in Mozambique, in 1963, daughter of an electrician father.
“Every week, there’s someone who gets trashed on social media. This week, it was a writer who had the unfortunate idea to write a chronicle saying that the Right Price should end”, says the writer Jose de Pina on this week’s episode of ““, on SIC.
According to the comedian, the program “was created for conversion to the euro. Otherwise, it’s a void. The public service could have something else, especially because the program is empty, only lives off the great Fernando Mendes“.
Isabela Figueiredo took to social media to react to the controversy, addressing “supreme and proud ignorant people unaware of their ignorance”.
“Read intelligently, because your problem It’s not just not wanting to read, it’s not having the ability to read and interpret”writes the writer in a Facebook post. “When they have the capacity to argue instead of throwing shit poisonous and cowardlytake the heads out of the holes where they stuck them.”
In one of the responses to her post, user Ana Guerreiro highlights a detail that the writer apparently ignores: Price Right, one of RTP’s highest-rated programs for two decades, generates significant advertising revenue, and, whether or not it is a “nullity”, It is not financed by our taxes.
And if it were, the user emphasizes, would be the taxes of the people of the countrywhich makes the program audience leader, “not those of a so-called intellectual elite, a minority that thinks it can impose its vision on others of the world.”
