Ironically, while most TCKs cite the ability to relate to nearly everyone, their own narratives suffer a relatability problem, perhaps because their youthful experiences, relegated wholly to remembrance and recollection, are in many ways too singular and strange-seeming to others. Perhaps because this life is characteristically slippery, it’s struggled to become clearly defined in the culture, even in fictional stories, suited though they are to crafting imagined worlds.
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It’s for this reason that the Italian director Luca Guadagnino will attempt to unpack one iteration of this experience - through Fraser, Britney and their five best friends - in “ We Are Who We Are,” an eight-part series premiering this September on HBO that pulls back the curtain on the experiences of the children of military families abroad and other third-culture kids like them, whose place in the world now feels both more tenuous and important than ever before. But rarely do we hear the stories of so-called “third-culture kids” and the private, nomadic worlds in which they are raised, marked by a certain shared disorientation and the sense that home is everywhere and nowhere at once. The idea that a sense of belonging is challenged by the straddling of cultures is hardly a revelation nearly every maker whose back story was shaped by more than one place has arrived at some version of that conclusion.
“They look the same so you don’t feel lost,” Britney tells Fraser. In a few years, many of them will ready themselves for a move - to another home on another military base in another country, with a supermarket configured to look exactly like this one.
To the viewer, the scene presents like quotidian life in the United States - but for the fact that it takes place in Veneto, Italy, on a military base where families work and attend school, their children running off every evening to dance and drink by the cerulean sea alongside their friends from town with whom they scheme and share secrets, whispered in fluent Italian. Fraser is a recent transplant from New York, and Britney a new friend who has lived her life evenly between South Korea, Germany and Italy, though you’d never know it by her American drawl or the pop music she blares through her headphones. On a blanched, sun-baked afternoon, two teenagers, a boy and a girl, wander into a grocery store to pick up lunch.
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