I've never been able to concentrate on
Star Wars:
I'm distracted by Darth Vader's cape, imagining the greatest villain in the universe choosing fabrics while he plans the destruction of Alderaan, feeling sorry for the dressmaker who sews his hem so he doesn't stumble when he walks down the street. Star of death.
Bad guys have a daily life, although fiction tends to take it away from us because it is considered irrelevant;
It is not,
The area of interest demonstrates it well.
Nothing overwhelmed me more in pride
See you in another life
(Disney+) that moment when, after buying the backpacks in which the dynamite that would kill 191 people would travel, the supermarket cashier asks the terrorists if they have a Club Card.
They didn't have them, but they did want an invoice.
Under what heading are the murderers listed?
The fidelity to the facts of the Disney+ series makes it almost a documentary.
I had to check if Pol López was a resident of the Aviles estuary: the Catalan nails the bravado of
Emilio
Suárez Trashorras, the cowardly boasting of someone who thinks he is safe.
March is early to talk about performances of the year, but yours will be among the candidates.
Also that of Tamara Casellas, that mother who wants a better life for her children, as long as it does not make hers worse, and Quim Ávila, the adult Gabriel Montoya who bears the decision of those responsible for the series to choose an actor as the protagonist. without experience.
The fact that what Roberto Gutiérrez does is exceptional for a debutant without prior training does not prevent his interpretation from being the weakest, and that being the protagonist does not dull the final result confirms the solidity of the framework.
Among its many successes, I am left with the lack of moralizing desire and the avoidance of justifying, even if it comes dangerously close, Baby's amorality.
He is not a rebel because the world has made him so, but by his own choice.
I grew up in a similar neighborhood—and I wouldn't change it for any other—, Rioturbio, in the mining areas, the Disneyland of drugs in the eighties.
There it was just as difficult to get off heroin as it was not to get on;
He chased you like the ball from
Raiders of the Lost Ark.
In each block there were some Montoyas and at the back of each bench a Gabriel was eating pipes, also others who, like his friend, would never have gotten into the Trashorras car.
Those were the bravest.
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