2023-12-22 22:34:18
Updated Friday, December 22, 2023 – 21:34
Albert Pint’s film becomes the most watched film in Spanish in history on the platform ahead of ‘El hoyo’ and the second in a non-English language.
Anna Castillo in a moment of ‘Nowhere’.MUNDO
Luis López Carrasco reasons in his latest (which is also his first) novel that dystopia and nostalgia are very immobilizing, even reactionary. The contemplation from the sofa at home of all the disasters that will come (as well as the gentle caress of the memory of a false past) calms us and leaves us completely still. And perhaps because of that, his success. We are naturally conservative animals. Those.
Nowherethe film directed by Albert Pint and produced by Miguel Ruz from the newly created label Rock and Ruz is dystopia, it retains something of the direct and simple model of the cinema of the eighties (here, nostalgia) and, perhaps for all this, it already It is the most watched Spanish movie in the history of Netflix with about 84 million views. In a non-English language, only the Norwegian Troll, by Roar Uthang, can boast of being ahead with more than a hundred million. This same week, on Wednesday to be precise, the record was set. The highly acclaimed The Hole, by Ask Castle Distance and who is currently working on filming a second part, gave up the throne. It should be noted that along with Through My Window, by Maral Fors, there are three titles in Spanish at the top of the platform.
It’s hard to predict something like that. Perhaps impossible, says producer Ruz, because he can imagine something similar to the recipe for success. However, it is corrected, a series of characteristics can be pointed out: the dialogues cannot be dense nor the story guide. This is not cinema. Television is not watched with the concentration that a living room offers. It is convenient that the story is focused on a single character and there has to be a great emotional charge. We must ensure that the viewer’s attention is not dispersed, that he feels involved in the story at all times. Pause. And one more: Every ten minutes something extraordinary has to happen.
Cinematic nightmare or formula for glory? Depending on where you look from. The truth is that the story of the character played by Anna Castillo knows no borders. We are talking about a story set in a future similar (or just the opposite) to that of Children of Men where having children is punished. This will lead the protagonist to be at the mercy of fate in the middle of the ocean. She is pregnant and she intends to reach the country (Ireland) where being a mother is not yet a crime. With these wickers, between survival, horror and action cinema, Nowhere has subtitles in 35 languages and, since its premiere at the end of September, it has become number 1 in 61 countries and reached number 2 in the largest of them all, the United States. It was surprising. You looked at the ranking and saw that the film was the most viewed even in Zimbabwe. Why? Maybe we are not so different. We all look for stories of improvement that matter to us and make us cry. That’s universal. On the other hand, Anna’s work is so incredible that she alone explains everything, says Ruz.
As it is, if The Hole broke into full confinement to show us how cruel, when reached an extreme moment, we can all be, Nowhere is there to show us at the very least that headphone cables are useful for something. And so on up to number 1 in the Netflix algorithm. Things from dystopas.
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