Those who are going to have a good time

2022-08-17T10:48:32.887Z

There is always someone we love who at some point sticks their face on the rear window of the car I'm going to have a good time, David Serrano's musical comedy about songs by Hombres G, is about a boy who falls in love with a girl for the first time, the girl leaves at the end of childhood, and when she returns she is 30 years older, and the boy has become in Raul Arevalo. Which is, exactly, the life of all of us who were born in the late seventies: that the person we liked left our side and t

I'm going to have a good time

, David Serrano's musical comedy about songs by Hombres G, is about a boy who falls in love with a girl for the first time, the girl leaves at the end of childhood, and when she returns she is 30 years older, and the boy has become in Raul Arevalo.

Which is, exactly, the life of all of us who were born in the late seventies: that the person we liked left our side and that life was turning us little by little into Raúl Arévalo, but without his talent;

rather, in the character of Arévalo: a guy waiting for her in the usual place, in the same city and with the same people, so that when she came back she wouldn't find anything strange, and it would be like yesterday, and she would never leave us again.

Also with the usual indeterminacy in the face of what we really like, and a violent optimism in tomorrow since childhood: we cast the future as we cast the pool.

It is not, however, a sad story.

Nothing that has to do with G Men is.

It is a long-lived band with enormous success that did not grow up under the tortured soul of two competing stars, or explosive vices, or hatreds or high-profile betrayals.

A movie based on two main characters (extraordinary child cast) who love their songs cannot be a sad movie, or a posh movie, or an inane movie.

It is a film that captures a time but not to smear it with nostalgia, but to show how, in a certain majority middle class in Spain, the eighties fit in with the present thanks to a mixture of sarcasm, happy resignation and disenchantment.

All of them ingredients not of a tragedy, but of a very specific spirit: that of wanting, as then, to have a good time.

Toy Story 3:

we let go of what we want to remain happy, or try another way.

Summer 1993

, Carla Simón was inspired by her own childhood to conclude, or so I perceived, to know if correctly, that when one is a child saying goodbye to pain is as hard as saying goodbye to happiness, especially for those who are still not sure what is one thing and another.

The children of

Voy a passármelo bien

, labeled at school as pardillos (pardillos literature is a whole genre: who would have thought then that they were going to star in all the movies, and even save the world), even try to hide being so smart, or studious, to be more popular, in what is a succulent

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of a certain adult world.

In the background, the need to tell it (the boy protagonist becomes the writer of a play and bookseller) and interpret it (the girl protagonist has become a famous and award-winning actress).

The fact that the Hollywood girl goes to Valladolid, the city in which the story takes place, to receive a tribute makes the connection with Brad Pitt too easy and the service information that is given in this column every year: the unknown twentysomething Pitt went to the Seminci and hooked up with a student who didn't want to go out that night because it was Tuesday, October, it was cold, it was raining and she had to study.

In the end, the one who has the best time is always the one who plays hard.

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