The title of the film is one of the stories Not Everyone (Sixth Floor), written by screenwriter Marta Jiménez Serrano. He is from Madrid in his thirties who, after the well-received debut of his first novel, Los nombres propios (2021), has just published these stories, a geography of emotion and love that would surely please any social-network-addicted Roland Barthes.
The plot of the film is not only a key detail for portraying the protagonist of the story, a seventy-year-old widow who has achieved cinematicism with a new illusion of love, but also received her award. The platform has added to its catalog a number of movies that could inspire the book, including jewels like Annie Hall, Two for the Road, When Harry Met Sally, Longing for Love, The Green Lightning, and more recently, You Have. to see it
And the list hints at a book that said little about love in the times of Tinder and artificial intelligence, a light book about light relationships that the author approaches with an excellent ear and pulls together more truth-like dialogue. and every day, he shows some ironic humor and some understanding towards his bewildered lovers.
Identification is done for readers and readers. First of all, Not Everyone, a title that doesn’t fit the title of the stories in the volume, actually means the opposite. It comes from a Lo de Verónica story in which Verónica falls in love again to the hilt and deceives herself about the relationship: this time yes… «We think we are very special when we fall in love and when we fall in love. , as if no one had experienced what we felt, and actually the title means that yes, everyone has this feeling, there are a number of dynamics we have in common,” explains the author.
He pays a lot of attention to the small and sometimes ridiculous details, but also paints a bigger picture that says a lot about the way romantic relationships in the 21st century. “I placed the stories within the contemporary world because I understand the world I live in by writing about it. The idea is to talk about things we take for granted but are actually much newer than they seem: getting together and caring for someone who has a child, breaking up and starting a new life away from a few dramas. years ago and the weight of social networks, which was very important for adolescents. Everything has changed a lot, and relations are becoming more open, more mobile».
The author assures that he put aside the stories that are much talked about today in the love variants, as he is not quite sure that they will really remain: «Yes, to give an example, I am talking about polygamy, but I am not sure that it really occurs so often in the theoretical way it is thought ». He states that recently relationships have become more flexible and very fast: «It is true that if you sleep with someone today, you should not take anything lightly. The most interesting thing is that while there was a certain consensus among peers before—for example, the reaction to not getting married compared to previous generations—but now I feel like each couple is faced with their own individual temperament. This is not bad because it allows you to build the pair you want, but it is also very tedious because you have to specify all the parameters ».
The deconstruction of masculinity in these new parameters is one of the cornerstones of new emotional relationships. “In one of the stories – the author explains – there is an example that I particularly like and that illustrates these new gender roles very well. A guy tells his best friend—they’re friends, not a couple—that he’s always been forced to be a good guy and asks him: “And you, what do you have to prove?” We’re in this reconfiguration of roles, and it’s very interesting at the time of writing ».