'Intimacy' or the denunciation of a 21st century crime

Intimacy

is a wonderful series that poses a crime of the 21st century: the non-consensual dissemination of videos with sexual content that, naturally, only pursue the sinking of its protagonists, a dissemination that reaches unimaginable heights through social networks and those artifacts fantastic and cruel that mobile phones are.

A modern technology that apparently enhances the inquisitor in all of us.

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'Intimacy', rapists and much more

A deputy mayor of Bilbao (Itziar Ortuño) and a factory worker in the same city (Verónica Echegui) are the victims.

In the first case, the goal is political: to finish off whoever aspires to the mayor's office with some annoying approaches for the oligarchs.

In the second, the spite of a rejected lover.

Eight episodes on Netflix in which, on occasion, a certain capacity for synthesis is longed for, even though what is proposed has a very interesting component of social denunciation: pointing out the hypocrisy of those who cover up personal interests or grudges under the mantle of an alleged and impeccable morals.

are unnecessary, because they are repetitive.

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Images and dialogue are enough to narrate the plot, or should be.

The rest is literature.

Created by Laura Sarmiento and Verónica Fernández,

also skilfully shows a nearby city and landscapes that become co-stars of the plot.

Also note a desire to show the ins and outs of a political party that has been ruling the city for decades, with a wonderful Emma Suárez cutting cod in the shadows and trying to stifle the maneuvers of the most upstarts.

A staunch defense of privacy, that is, of personal dignity.

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