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snupi ᵕ̈ retweeted
Of course, that is the great tragedy of La Bola Negra. Sebastian survives by denying parts of himself, only to spend the rest of his life unable to fully inhabit the life he's survived for. And Guitarricadelafuente's performance is so devastating.
snupi ᵕ̈ retweeted
Sebastian sides with the Nationalists bc they find him and hand him a gun. He wants to survive. But survival becomes complicity, and "I had no choice" is how so many have justified their complicity in fascism. We sympathize with him, but that doesn't absolve him. And he knows it.
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i made a slightly pretentious critique of a pretentious review calling a movie pretentious:
“La Bola Negra,” a new film by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, dramatizes gay repression and liberation across three interconnected stories. At first, the year is 1937 and viewers are thrust deep into the Spanish Civil War, where a Nationalist soldier and a wounded Republican freedom fighter exchange furtive glances. By the end, it’s 2017, and a Madrid-based historian need only look to Grindr to satisfy an urge. The movie “wants to be a sweeping historical epic of gay longing—a film about what it means to be a man who desires other men in times of war and peace,” Justin Chang writes. Instead, the directors have produced “a film that insists, arrogantly and aggressively, on its own monumentality”. Even compelling performances from Glenn Close, Penélope Cruz, and Lola Dueñas fail to rescue the extravagantly overwrought film. Read Chang's full review: newyorker.com/culture/the-cu…
