At some point I stopped thinking that Quentin Tarantino was a director of the gore subgenre, that someone powerful in the film industry had liked him. And I don't know why I stopped thinking about it. At the end of the day it is about blood and violence if not gratuitous yes to ...
What remains for those of us who were born after the post-Civil War dictatorship: the testimonies of those who lived through it. History is what it is, a sum of official or unofficial accounts. But always with a tendentious point, sometimes necessarily vindictive and in ...
A bucolic image of a snowy valley can offer different views and very different interpretations. The uniform white beauty of a nature surrendered to hibernation can also mean isolation, inactivity, lethargy, boredom, or even fear of feeling separated from everything, at the mercy of inclement weather that seems to alter ...
In liquid cities the contour of reality is distorted by the waves of the impact of each new concept. Marta Rebón invites us to visit these cities, inhabited by wise souls, capable of living in the midst of that sensation of a mutable world, at the whim of the reverberation of ...
On many occasions we see how crime novels acquire a touch of thriller based on the most personal involvement of the investigator or police officer on duty, a smart bet to end up making a whole of the corresponding case or the sinister approach that ends up encompassing everything. Nevertheless, …
Various voices offer us black stories, police, small scripts taken from real settings, the opposite approach to the usual ... Because reality does not exceed fiction, it simply supplants it. Reality is a deception, at least that which is limited to power, interests, politics more and more every day ...
__I have already told you that I cannot talk about the future. I did not come for that, father. What I do assure you is that tomorrow, as we imagine it, will become that longed-for utopia. __Come one please. Tell me more about the future. Anyway, I never ...
There are social chronicles of the most buried plot that sting when they reach us with the harshness of direct testimony. This book by Mabel Lozano introduces us to the world of prostitution through a pimp. The sex business, always moving to the edge of morality and ...
In the cinema we already have several examples of sublimation of the harsh reality to protect the most vulnerable people. Billy Elliot or Life is Beautiful are two good examples. I had yet to find, in the recent narrative, some parallelism of that emotional intention of placebo against reality. ...
I was recently reviewing Neil Gaiman's latest book, Nordic Myths. The history seen from the perspective of these myth-filled towns has an aftertaste of Basic History. In the same way that the Greek and Roman classics constituted the sustenance of the modern world, the Nordic peoples of Europe did ...
In the absence of renowned intelligence agencies, such as CIA, MI6 or KGB, at the end of the 50s Spain saw the birth of two of its most sought-after agents for lost causes and wrongs with the greatest international repercussion. They were none other than Mortadelo and Filemón. In the shadow of ...
Aaron Falk hates his origins. But there is always a reason for that animosity that can make you look back in absolute rejection. After all, what you are is to a great extent what you were with the precise drops of what you learned to be. The …