Blackout ★★★★
Address: Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Raúl Arévalo, Isa Campo, Alberto Rodriguez and Isaki Lacuesta
Distribution: Luis Callejo, Maria Vazquez, Zoe Arnao, Patricia Lopez Arnaiz
Country: Spain
Duration: About 45 minutes (5 episodes)
Year: 2022
Gender: Drama
premiere: September 29, 2022 (Movistar Plus +)
to doA series about a planet or, above all, a countryin a process of rapid adaptation to an unimaginable situation scarcity of energy, food and just about anything Right? You might think of “Blackout” as a kind of Spanish-style “Collapse”, but this is (very free) adaptation digital audio file ‘The Great Blackout’, by José A. Pérez Ledo, sooner or later reveals his own identity. Or ids: each five episodes It bears the signatures of a well-known director of Spanish cinema and almost always the most common screenwriters. All these creators are committed to the same realistic vision while exploring different textures, tones, concerns and even genres.
If we were thrown into a crisis situation without much explanation in ‘The Crash’, we’re betting here on scientific (and political and social) resemblance to truth from the start. “Negación,” an episode directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“Antiriot”) and written by Isabel Peña and herself, points to one of the large-scale solar storms as the source of the crisis that scientists have threatened for years. It cripples global communications and power grids around the world. Warn of the possible imminence of disaster, Ernesto (Luis Callejo), deputy director of Madrid’s Civil Protection and Emergency Unit, tries to persuade a group of his superiors of the need for urgent action. unpopular measures Private part one moody’income‘ office until the personal overpowers the general and discovers the chaos in the streets with Sorogoyen’s virtuoso camera.
duel for civilization
‘Denial’ is the first stage of a duel for civilization as we know it. This is followed by ‘Emergencia’, an episode directed by Raúl Arévalo (‘Tarde para la ira’) from a script co-written with Fran Araújo and Alberto Marini. maximum voltage states. we learn here How does a hospital run or stop working without medication, generators, or overstaffed?: Many healthcare professionals will surely remember the worst days of the corona virus. As in Katrina’s latest series on “After the Hurricane”, the difficult dilemmas of triage are explored by deciding who should be treated and who should not. this camera in hand captures both sparks of tension and momentary bursts of illusion.
It’s also easy to find pandemic resonances in ‘Confrontación’, the story of an episode directed by Isa Campo (‘La propera pell’) and co-written with Fran Araújo. interrupted by puberty confinement arm in arm with some of the kids who are shaking up the new normality of a protective and frenetic rebooted urbanization. Zoé Arnao leads a realistic story with great naturalness that flirts with the spooky tradition of dangerous children. Shortly thereafter, Alberto Rodriguez (‘La isla minima’) and its screenwriter Rafael Cobos unabashedly embrace the codes of the ‘suspense’ and the western in ‘Survival’, the story of a veteran shepherd (Jesús Carroza) who has to deal with a war. a group from the city looking for their flocks; and also a beautiful but brutal scenery who stands as the key character.
According to the Kübler-Ross theory, the fifth part of the duel should be ‘Acceptance’, but in this case we are more talking about a realization, or as the title says, a certain ‘Equilibrium’, an opportunity for Isaki Lacuesta (‘Between two waters’) and screenwriters Isa Campo and Fran Araújo’s passing through beautiful calm emotions. Alicia (the perfect María Vázquez) returns to her family’s farm after a long time. unexpected integrity with a group of seasonal workers stranded by a power outage. After the (sun)storm, calm may come: a little break from unsustainable modern life.
Source: Informacion
