When the director, screenwriter and playwright Alfonso Amador first thought about transforming the theatrical work about the far right Marina, unplugged in a mockumentary, he did it so that it would see the light shortly before the last general elections“to say, what you are voting for is this, so think about it.” The president Pedro SanchezHowever, it brought forward the elections to the end of July after the failure in the regional elections and the work finally premiered in Valencia in October 2023.
Starring the recently awarded as Best Actress in the Mostra de València-Cinema del Mediterrani, Claudia Facithis film is a bucket of cold water that warns about the deep omnipresence of fascist speeches in all Europe. Both its form and its content obey this ultimate objective: from the staging and photography editing to the scriptall elements of the production bring clear reminiscences of the Nazi ideologues and politicians.
He mockumentarywhose title rescues from the trunk of memories those famous MTV Unplugged American concerts (acoustic concerts without musical arrangements), has been defined by critics as “an entire reflection on how we they cannibalize culturehow they prostitute the word, how little we matter, how little we are, how much they despise us“. The work also features the interpretation of Alaitz Catalá, Toni Agusti, Angel Galan, Michelangelo Dull, Begoña Soler and the co-writer Jorge Picó.
The sagacity with which the work portrays the plot of the extreme right via ingenious theatrical monologues has unleashed the indignation of those who, perhaps seeing themselves portrayed in the protagonist, have felt her as a direct threat to them. Proof of this was the refusal of some senior officials of the Valencian administration regarding attend your presentation.
It also stung, a lot, the former Minister of Culture and Sports José Vicente Barrerawho recently stated that the work should not have received public financing. Luckily, the filmmaker recalls with relief, “the right had not yet won in the regional elections when we had a grant that helped us film it.
But far from representing what the retired bullfighter from Vox called at the time “white culture” (that which does not provide any content), the cinematographic work allows a poetic approach to the far-right ideology and the persuasiveness of those who champion it, despite its multiple contradictions.
Marina, unplugged was born to inconvenience and to stir something deep inside all the people who believe in strength of his political convictions. When the protagonist addresses an imaginary audience during her rehearsals to talk about her proposals, the viewer cannot help but enter a state of unrest permanent.
“It’s a movie anti-fascist what makes you have to deal with some ideas What the protagonist said. The viewer’s concern lies in the fact that this doesn’t know what to expectcan never completely relax,” says the director. In this way, the film achieves its initial purpose: to convince of the extraordinary power of fascination which may contain extreme right ideology when your representatives use the appropriate communication channels and language. Messages racists, homophobes, sexist and xenophobes disguised as common sense through fallacies that instantly trap the average citizen jaded by economic crisis and the uncertainty.
The main character is not inspired by any ultra leader in particular but is, in a way, all of them. The protagonist could be at the same time Giorgia Meloni, Marine Le Pen either Isabel Diaz Ayusoor an intellectualized and overwhelming version of these. Instead of using the usual formulas and spaces of political communication to convey its electoral program, it chooses to carry out an entire performance theatrical in the form of a monologuea cleverly chosen packaging for capture the attention of your listeners and successfully bring them to their field.
He does it without shouting or violent slogansbecause he knows he doesn’t need it to get his message across. “Instead of making a meeting in a bullring or in a large stadium, what he does is a acoustic concert. What we were interested in showing is the monologue, the speech,” says Amador. It premieres in Madrid for the first time next November 1, 2 and 3 in the film library Slaughterhouse.
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