Authors — to answer! Why would a penguin leave the pack and go alone into icy wastelands dozens of miles away? The real reason for a real writer should not be important: the main thing is how to describe the personal drama of the penguin, his feelings and desires, attempts to survive away from his relatives. A curious episode from the animal world gets into the focus of a writer giving a master class, and in the heart of Alvaro, for several years trying to write at least something intelligible.
An employee of a notary office wants to write “real literature”, despising the well-selling fiction of his wife, Amanda Carvajal, known throughout Andalusia. “A true writer,” “your style,” “talent”—these expressions shine like beacons in Alvaro’s mind. When Amanda gives an excuse to send her away, Alvaro's compliant talent suddenly opens up. A harsh word to the address of the cheating wife - and you already look at this woman with the abstract gaze of a real writer.
And how many literally behind the wall of such amazing characters! The usual expressiveness of Maria Leon, playing Amanda, is in the shadow of other bright characters - an elderly Francoist, suffering from the lack of attention of a temperamental concierge and not so simple family couple of immigrants from Mexico. Alvaro, like yeast, scattered key phrases that cause fermentation in the minds of neighbors and increase the tapping of the fingers on the keyboard.
As if taking off the shell of a lawyer, a naked person clings to a laptop to be born in a new capacity. As one of the culprits of this film, Javier Serkas, put it, “I am driven by an obsession in the writer’s work – something becomes an obsession.” A penguin in Antarctica went to compose a masterpiece. A short man, like that penguin, goes deep into the empty corridors, leaving the raging flock to reap the fruits of fermentation.
The fatal master class, together with the emotional mentor of beginning authors, reduced the drama to individual desires and their consequences, predetermining the quality of yeast, moreover, densely flavored with social cliches from Alvaro. It is a one-way ticket to a world of extreme individualism. This kind of “art” catches ever sharper dramas in “reality” and sharpens them even more, to throw thousands of copies of yeast into the human cauldron, raising the degree of social madness.
8 out of 10
Original