'Partisan', a reflection on intolerance

In 2020 it was awarded as the best series of the year at the Cannes Television Festival.

And, certainly, it is a wonderful series that, in addition, invites us to reflect on something disturbing and verifiable: the rise of white supremacism, of intolerance, of the yearning for totalitarianism in important sectors of the citizenry of the so-called first world.

There is the elevation of Trump or the more domestic Vox.

We are talking about

(Sundance TV), a Swedish production directed by Amir Chamdin and starring Fares Fares, a Swede of Lebanese origin already known for the equally excellent Danish series

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musical

, by Leonard Cohen, as coherent as the entire plot of its five chapters: “Oh, the wind, the wind blows, / Through the graves the wind blows. / Freedom will soon come; / then we will come out of the shadows”, sings the Canadian.

And so it is in the series.

A farm dedicated to organic farming in an idyllic landscape where two orphaned teenage sisters and a truck driver arrive.

It is a closed community in which 200 people live.

Little by little we will understand that the bucolic landscape has nothing to do with those who work in Jordnära, immersed in the shadows of what they want: the creation of a new Europe that, in reality, is the old Nazism.

A system that despises those who are not like them, who carry out genetic experiments to propagate those of their kind, with an, apparently habitual, fascination of its components for the cult of the body through gymnastics and, perhaps the most disturbing , that they do all this from a kind tranquility: it is the horror concealed in a daily moderation.

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