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Deranged

" I'm deranged Deranged my
love
'm deranged down down down So cruise
me babe, cruise baby me "
David Bowie, Deranged

I am now in Chuck City as part of my Christmas pilgrimage. these days are little given to the post, less than what he believed to be honest. The family calls me and is difficult to avoid your call. Today however it seems I have a little more or less calm, just for me and I come to open the cabinet (and smelled a bit musty), to meet with you and make a (new) extemporaneous commentary Shock, the latest short Nacho Vigalondo.

As you know by now, Shock is the story of Diego , a pretty bud climbs with his girlfriend Lorena (my class named Natalia that of his own, perhaps Leticia ) discover to their joy, first, to their regret later, the mystery hidden in a car crash in the basement of the Gran Vía . And it will eventually regret, because after the initial hype, some unpleasant guests to Diego placed at the top of a spiral of chaos and utter madness, that you laugh and multiple personalities of bilocation Lost Highway.

seems to be an exercise bound to draw parallels between Shock and 7:35 am, the multi-nominated and short super famous Vigalondo. And this is a fun game that I did not resist to come. I think I have read the same Vigalondo say Shock appeal to those who hated 7:35 and vice versa, and may have part of reason as to shock is more subtle in his language and his references, less explicit in his bitter humor, less light if they want. That Diego put on jacket, Vigalondo pin drop its talks more clear but not higher than the opening phrase " Do you know why we did not have small stress? "

to "high" shock nor ends with a joke explaining that reveals patterns or solve mysteries. Do not have a clue to the above, make clear that the psychiatrist is actually dead or Tyler Durden is actually in your head. But the important thing has happened well before. It is therefore understandable that someone who I hope to find one last pun as 7:35 can ask to enter the end titles, "Ein?


For Shock is over almost everything, the story of an obsession, a very masculine as well: The clinging to the absurd, to the totally out of practice. And that is why the parallels most interesting thing is the consistent theme that reveals Vigalondo. And is that if you look carefully you will see that there is continuity between 7:35 , Sunday (Its short for Notodofilmfest ) and Shock: The comedy of the life of the isolation between the sexes. The same that leads one to fill with dynamite to tell how it feels to the girl of his dreams (a strategy rather extreme anti-rejection otherwise), or put up with his girlfriend screaming in pursuit of the tape with Holiday Turkey just as important in the history of humanity or feeling abandoned and misunderstood by the danger of a duel of cosmic impact. And if you do not believe me, try to replace the last sentence of the court by a " Did you like as much as I ?" or "How that was okay, honey? "

On the other hand, it is also true that Vigalondo not used this time to the elements of genre films to offer a new approach to an old topic. There is no choreography or flying saucers, maybe just a duel to neon and yes, Karate Kid. There are however other issues, I think previously ignored his work, as the (literal) class struggle or, perhaps better, the young.

Let me tell you finally that one of my moments favorite Shock occurs when Diego has to report to the campus security guard by disturbances that he is causing and the situation is clouded further against him when he begins to explain, as we did with the teacher when we had committed a reprehensible act that " they have appeared and have begun to hit / beat"? / Yes, with cars " . A humorous review of the false guilty Hithcockiano .

So I reaffirm. I will continue looking forward to the time they reach Timecrimes. As for not doing so: A English film about time travel!