‘Blackout’: An impressive ‘collage’ of five author ‘films’

“Very good people came together, who are very high quality and also make very high demands in common with a lot of facts,” explains the lead character of the series. Responsibility for creating that world catastrophe that sounds so good (statistically, a solar storm is as likely to be as likely to be a pandemic, so very little, but it does happen), every director has given it as much tone as possible. be ‘Tension’ in Sorogoyen case or mix Fiction and documentary at Lacuesta.

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But the genres that different chapters (or even each chapter) refer to are the most diverse: ‘suspense’, drama, social condemnation, romantic melodrama…There is even a kind of Segovian ‘westerner’. “They’re different themes, different views, but they feel like the same work,” insists Araújo.

Written by serial Isabel Peña, Alberto Marini, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campos, Rafael Cobos and Araújo himself, After creating 15 stories, they kept five of them, distributed them, and each director made them their own. “This is the first time something like this has been done, but it worked,” its creator congratulates. Each chapter has a title that reminds of the stages of grief. “It’s the same in the crisis, because it’s a power outage. And there are very difficult things during the crisis, but you learn too”, emphasizes Araújo.

sections

Firstly, ‘Denial’, tell me how scientists and Civil Protection officials face the approaching solar storm. Inside ‘Emergency’, It’s about “how you try to move forward and accept it,” set in a hospital. ‘Confrontation’tells how some young people live; ‘Survival’, “The worst part is that the shepherd who is in the most critical moment, the only thing left to do is to run away” and ‘Balance’“There is talk of overcoming it and learning from crises,” the screenwriter elaborates.

Despite the tragedy, almost all episodes have a message of hope. “We wanted to end the last one on a positive note. Inside doomsday fictions always “There is a tendency for people to take advantage of the fact that everything has gone wrong to talk about how terrible they are: But what we learned in the pandemic is that this is not true: people showed their best,” he continues. “In the first two episodes, although terrible things happened, there is a man trying to fix it and the same thing is in the hospital. In the third and fourth, the moments become more difficult as everything gets harder as the fainting progresses, but in the last one, a person starts a new life.”

Actors

Outside Luis Callejo (‘The longest night’, ‘I’m late for anger’)The film, which will appear in two parts, features a large group of actors, among whom there are no big stars to give more credibility. “We’re actors who aren’t so burnt out,” he admits. Them and them María Vázquez, Patricia Lopez ArnaizAinhoa ​​Santamaria, Jesus Carroza, Melina Matthews, Tomas del Estal, Javier Tena, Zoe Arnao, Michael Fernandez, Naira Lleó, Mourad Ouani and Sofia El Bouanani, among others. Intervention with the same intent non-player people.

Another one of the great heroes is it light. Or its absence. Or rather, light sources that illuminate when there is no electricity. “They’re all right, what do you a tone and an aesthetic. we did tests on 150 different lighting fixtures to see which one we can use.” But it’s not just light, it’s music, sometimes disturbing melodies, others are heartbreaking, very meaningful and have a very strange origin: ”The music in the first part is electronic. But then it’s done with tools made as if he had passed out. To make music with what you find,” explains Saraújo. Pay attention to the smallest detail.