Ariel – a spirit
The present article evokes the personality of Florian Pittiș, a great Romanian
actor. Florian Pittiș always had a kind of primary childhood within him. A
seriousness of categorical candor, which sometimes led him to fanaticism. He
used to say that all his life he wanted to be a hippie and saying that was not
just a bravado, but rather an assumed philosophy of life, with a thorough
bibliography and many shelves with hundreds of read books. The flower power
movement, to which Moțu' devoted himself with all his being, represented a sum
of at least four or five crystallized elements from the life of American youth
after the Second World War: the passionate opposition to the Vietnam War, the
return to the original models of life, the priority given to nature and the
natural ("flower power") in opposition to the American materialist modernity,
to which he added on one hand a strong influence of some oriental spiritual
philosophical currents in contradiction with the Christian spirituality,
twinned with yoga practices, and on the other hand, a kind of religious
mysticism fueled by so-called light drugs. Florian Pittiș produced some
extraordinary roles, unexpected by their deep originality, a sign of his
maturity but also of an extraordinary inner strength. He was a kind of guru for
a generation that did not have access to information and at the same time
through his poetry and music performances he offered young people quality
texts, Romanian and universal poetry accompanied by comments and famous
guests.
RĂZVAN IONESCU
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