Resumen de Contra el cine español. Panorama general al inicio de un nuevo siglo
The narrator, tormented by his troubled relationship with his country’s cinema and culture, feels a vain and pretentious desire to join forces with authors like Gil de Biedma or Juan Goytisolo in the so-called anti-Spanish tradition. He thus embarks on a peculiar examination of cinematographic production during the years of Aznar’s government, only to discover a situation similar to that of the late fifties/early sixties, or even to that of the time of the political transition from dictatorship to democracy: a sort of “black hole” in which the chaos of political discourse gives way to a kind of creative explosion. Paradoxically, this outburst of creativity is brought to an end by the phenomenon of Mar abstract adentro. Dismayed, the narrator returns to his doubts...
