If you think that we already have problems (not so many, actually) to live with people of different cultures and origins, imagine having to do it with people from another time, with other values and another vision of the world. In British comedy Ghosts (in Movistar +), a couple settles in a mansion where spirits of those who died before there live. A romantic poet, a woman burned as a witch, a beheaded in the time of the Tudors, aristocrats, a current corrupt politician … And the troglodyte, who expresses himself with difficulty but is a chess genius, because intelligence has not evolved either so much. There are classes, yes: in the basement the victims of the Black Death are crowded.
The BBC series is more entertaining than memorable, which is not intended. Play culture clash between the ghosts themselves and between them and the living. Somehow reminds The Ministry of Time, of TVE, where the camaraderie between people of today and of the past is highlighted (brilliant the evolution of the idealist Alonso Entrerríos from warrior in Flanders to the XXI century).
Light stories that only aspire to make us laugh, but that help to de-dramatize the diversity in our time and place. More resounding is the message of Beforeigners, Norwegian series (on HBO), in which a wave of refugees from other times arrives, from the sea, to Oslo today. The transtemporal They try to integrate as best they can, but they build their communities, so that the neighborhood of the Stone Age, that of the Vikings or that of the nineteenth century emerged.
Interesting dilemma. We could not deny reception, as we do to foreigners, to our own ancestors. Einstein would say: what difference does time or space matter. It matters that the other exists.
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